Edmund White
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.
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| Born | Edmund Valentine White III January 13, 1940 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan Cranbrook School |
| Period | 1970s–present |
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| 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 |
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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.