American novelist, memoirist, and essayist (born 1940)
For the English cricketer, see Edmund White (cricketer).
Not to be confused with E. B. White.
Edmund White
White photographed by David Shankbone
Born
Edmund Valentine White III (1940-01-13) January 13, 1940 (age 84) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation
Novelist
short story writer
non-fiction writer
Nationality
American
Alma mater
University of Michigan Cranbrook School
Period
1970s–present
Notable works
The Joy of Gay Sex (1977)
A Boy's Own Story (1982)
The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988)
The Farewell Symphony (1997)
Notable awards
Guggenheim Fellowship 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography 1993 Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1993 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction 2018
Spouse
Michael Carroll
Website
edmundwhite.com
Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics. Since 1999 he has been a professor at Princeton University. France made him Chevalier (and later Officier) de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1993.
White's books include The Joy of Gay Sex, written with Charles Silverstein (1977); his trilogy of semi-autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997); and his biography of Jean Genet. Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love.
White has also written biographies of three French writers: Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud. He is the namesake of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, awarded annually by Publishing Triangle.
Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics...
The EdmundWhite Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour debut novels by writers within the LGBT community. First...
the French publication of the novel's first volume, American author EdmundWhite pronounced In Search of Lost Time "the most respected novel of the twentieth...
Frank Ripploh as Drunken legionnaire According to Genet's biographer EdmundWhite, Querelle was originally going to be made by Werner Schroeter, with a...
France. His foster family was headed by a carpenter and, according to EdmundWhite's biography, was loving and attentive. While he received excellent grades...
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Last Battle). In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Edmund betrays his siblings to the White Witch while under her influence, but as the story goes...
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty is a 1988 semi-autobiographical novel by EdmundWhite. It is the second of a trilogy of novels, being preceded by A Boy's Own...
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The Farewell Symphony is a 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by EdmundWhite. It is the third of a trilogy of novels, being preceded by A Boy's Own Story...
the approach of Aslan, her magical winter thaws. Edmund receives a hostile reception from the White Witch upon arriving at her castle without his siblings...
Proust's Time Regained Archived 27 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine EdmundWhite (2009). Marcel Proust: A Life. Penguin. ISBN 9780143114987. "Marcel Proust...
Cranbrook School is also the model for the preparatory school portrayed in EdmundWhite´s autobiographical novel A Boy's Own Story. Lisa Birnbach makes note of...
"glorification of the Image and the Reflection." Genet's biographer EdmundWhite wrote that with The Balcony, along with The Blacks (1959), Genet re-invented...
nobelprize.org. Retrieved 28 September 2023. "Marcel Proust: A Life, by EdmundWhite". 12 July 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2023. "Anatole France". benonsensical...
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