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Name: Edmund White  
   
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Date of Birth: 13th January 1940
   
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
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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