Edmund White
American novelist
Died when: 85 years 141 days (1024 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
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Edmund Valentine White III (born 1940) was 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.
