Edmund White

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Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is a novelist, short-story writer and critic. He is also currently a fiction writing teacher and the director of creative writing at Princeton University.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he largely grew up in Chicago and later worked in New York as a journalist. As a boy, White attended the prestigious Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and studied Chinese at the University of Michigan. From 1983 to 1990 he lived in France. His best-known work is perhaps A Boy's Own Story, the first volume of an autobiographical-fiction trilogy that continued with The Beautiful Room Is Empty and The Farewell Symphony, describing stages in the life of a gay man from boyhood to middle age. Most of his fictional work is set in a contemporary gay milieu, although his later work draws on a broader range of themes. He has also been influential as a literary and cultural critic, particularly on gay issues, and has been open in his discussion of his HIV-positive status for two decades. He recently published an autobiography entitled My Lives, at the age of sixty-five.

1 Works
- 1.1 Fiction
- 1.2 Nonfiction
2 Further reading
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Works

[edit] Fiction

A Boy's Own Story book cover

Forgetting Elena (1973)
Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978)
A Boy's Own Story (1982) ISBN 0525241280
Caracole (1985)
The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988)
The Farewell Symphony (1998)
The Married Man (2000)
Fanny: A Fiction (2003)

[edit] Nonfiction

The Joy of Gay Sex, with Charles Silverstein (1977)
States of Desire (1980)
The Burning Library: Writings on Art, Politics and Sexuality 1969-1993 (1994)
The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris (2000)
Arts and Letters (2004)

[edit] Biography

Jean Genet (1993)
Marcel Proust (1998)

[edit] Memoir

Our Paris: Sketches from Memory (1995)
My Lives (2006)

[edit] Anthologies

The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis (1987)
In Another Part of the Forest: : An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994)
The Art of the Story (2000)
A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play (2001)

[edit] Further reading

Morton, Paul. (April 6, 2006) "Interview: Edmund White."EconoCulture Retrieved April 29, 2006
Edmund White: My Women. Learning how to love them The New Yorker June 13, 2005. Autobiographical article

[edit] See also

His "A Boy's Own Story" is referred to in Queer As Folk (U.S.) Episode 4.10. Ben Brucker discusses an offscreen White reading with student Anthony.
Keith McDermott