Edmund White
Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical sequence A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty and The Farewell Symphony, as well as Caracole, Forgetting Elena, Noctunes for the King of Naples, and Skinned Alive, a collection of short stories. He is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about America - States of Desire - and of Sketches from Memory, with Hubert Sorin. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres.
Books by Edmund White
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The Burning Library: Writings on Art,Politics and Sexuality 1969-1993
by Edmund WhitePublished: 01/12/2010
Not only a brilliant collection of literary essays, but a moving and personal account of the changes in gay life over three decades.
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Fanny: A Fiction
by Edmund WhitePublished: 01/12/2004
A quirky, dazzling fiction about the lives, loves and battles of two extraordinary nineteenth-century women.
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Genet
by Edmund WhitePublished: 01/03/2004
'This biography is elegant meticulous and wholly satisfying' Sunday Telegraph
