FROM 1966, this is the first edition, so stated on the copyright page, of The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem, as published by George Brazillier, New York. 8x5 inches, 240 pages. Ned Rorem (born October 23, 1923[1]) is an American composer and diarist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976. A famous gay memoir.

In 1966 he published The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem, which, with his later diaries, has brought him some notoriety, as he is honest about his and others' sexuality, describing his relationships with Leonard Bernstein, Noël Coward, Samuel Barber, and Virgil Thomson, and outing several others (Aldrich and Wotherspoon, eds., 2001). Rorem has written extensively about music as well. These essays are collected in anthologies such as Setting the Tone, Music From the Inside Out, and Music and People. His prose is much admired, not least for its barbed observations about such prominent musicians as Pierre Boulez.