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Edmund White
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American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025)
Film & TV
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love. His 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…
Known for
- Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy — Self2023
- The Spark: The Origins of Pride — Self2019
- Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict — Self2015
- Babel2014
- Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open — Self2013
- Edmund White: Other States of Desire2010
- Sex Positive — Self2009
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- White
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cincinnati
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Cranbrook Educational Community
- Employer
- Princeton University
- Languages spoken
- French
- Religion
- atheism
- Award
- National Book Award
- Notable work
- A Boy's Own Story
- Field of work
- journalism
- Image
- Edmund White BBF 2011 Shankbone.JPG
- Work location
- Princeton
- Residence
- Chelsea
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- influenced by
- Marcel Proust
- date of birth
- 1940-01-13
- nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography
- sexual orientation
- male homosexuality
- Commons category
- Edmund White
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- start of work period
- 1973-00-00
- P8168
- Aichryson punctatum
- medical condition
- HIV infection
- date of death
- 2025-06-03
- name in native language
- Edmund White
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