McGuane, Thomas; and Edmund White.

THE BROOK 1958: The Official Annual of Cranbrook School 1957-1958; [McGuane & White’s Senior Class High School Yearbook].

[Bloomfield Hills, MI]: Cranbrook School, 1958. First edition. The senior class yearbook for the two authors, who met and became friends while at Cranbrook. White, who described McGuane in a 2012 New Yorker article as “resolutely straight though strangely tolerant of my ‘tendencies’,” based his novel A BOY’S OWN STORY on his experiences at Cranbrook. Perhaps tellingly, the write-up next to McGuane’s formal senior-class photo starts off with “Anyone interested in guns, hot rods, boats, or women?” while White’s begins, “Ed, who is an individualist if there ever was one....” Both appear in informal pictures opposite their formal ones with McGuane’s, which is captioned “I bet I can,” featuring him in miniature pointing up at a large bar glass imprinted with “I Bet You Can’t” on it; while White’s, which is captioned “Peyton Place, . . . ha!,” shows him sitting at a typewriter staring off into space. McGuane wrote for The Crane, was a member of the United World Federalists, on the homecoming committee, and a member of the Quill and Scroll. White, who is noted in the yearbook for his writing talent (“As evidenced by the fact that he has already written one novel and is well on his way to completing a second”), was a member of Ergasterion (drama club), Glee Club (president his senior year), held “the principal roles in the Christmas Pageant and the Operetta,” and received a “Jasper Reid Award” for writing three years in a row. 4to simulated dark-blue leather stamped in silver on front. Pages unnumbered. Fine.
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