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City Boy

Edmund White

A memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City's cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultuous 1970s, from the acclaimed author Edmund White.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · high confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> BiographyMemoir & Personal HistoryBusiness BiographyHousing, Cities & Urban Life

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and AutobiographyMajor2009FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Edmund White42%

  2. 02 Central places

    • New York City88%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The memoir depicts the social and sexual lives of New York City’s cultural and intellectual in-crowd during the tumultuous 1970s.

    Model confidence 80%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.