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13th January 1940 |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia 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. 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. 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.
Works
- Forgetting Elena (1973)
- The Joy of Gay Sex, with Charles Silverstein (1977)
- Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978)
- States of Desire (1980)
- A Boy's Own Story (1982)
- The Disappointment Project (1984)
- Caracole (1985)
- The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988)
- Jean Genet (1993)
- The Burning Library: Writings on Art, Politics and Sexuality 1969-1993 (1994)
- Our Paris: Sketches from Memory (1995)
- The Farewell Symphony (1998)
- Proust (1998)
- The Married Man (2000),
- The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris (2000)
- Fanny: A Fiction (2003)
- Arts and Letters (2004)
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