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Edmund White

February 15, 2024

For the English cricketer, see Edmund White (cricketer).
Not to be confused with E. B. 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.

Edmund White
White photographed by David Shankbone
BornEdmund Valentine White III
(1940-01-13) January 13, 1940 (age 84)
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • non-fiction writer
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Cranbrook School
Period1970s–present
Notable works
Notable awardsGuggenheim 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
SpouseMichael Carroll
Website
edmundwhite.com

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.

Early life and education edit

Edmund Valentine White mostly grew up in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, as a boy. Afterward, he studied Chinese at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1962.[1]

Incestuous feelings colored his early family life. White stated that his mother, for instance, was sexually attracted to him.[2] He, moreover, spoke of his own attraction to his father: "I think with my father he was somebody who every eye in the family was focused on and he was a sort of a tyrant and nice-looking, the source of all power, money, happiness, and he was implacable and difficult. He was always spoken of in sexual terms, in the sense he left our mother for a much younger woman who was very sexy but had nothing else going for her. He was a famous womanizer. And he slept with my sister!"[3] He has also stated: "Writing has always been my recourse when I've tried to make sense of my experience or when it's been very painful. When I was 15 years old, I wrote my first (unpublished) novel about being gay, at a time when there were no other gay novels. So I was really inventing a genre, and it was a way of administering a therapy to myself, I suppose."[4][5]

White was present at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 when the Stonewall uprising began.[6] He later wrote, "Ours may have been the first funny revolution."[7] "When someone shouted 'Gay is good' in imitation of 'Black is beautiful', we all laughed... Then I caught myself foolishly imagining that gays might someday constitute a community rather than a diagnosis".[8]

White declined admission to Harvard University's Chinese doctoral program in favor of following a lover to New York. There he freelanced for Newsweek and spent seven years working as a staffer at Time-Life Books.[1] After briefly relocating to Rome, San Francisco, and then returning to New York, he was briefly employed as an editor for the Saturday Review when the magazine was based in San Francisco in the early 1970s; after the magazine folded in 1973, White returned to New York to edit Horizon (a quarterly cultural journal) and freelance as a writer and editor for entities such as Time-Life and The New Republic.[1]

Personal life edit

White identifies as gay and is also an atheist, though he was reared as a Christian Scientist.[2][9] He discovered he was HIV-positive in 1985.[9] However, he is a "non-progressor", one of the small percentage of cases that have not led to AIDS.[2] He is in a long-term open relationship with the American writer Michael Carroll,[2] living with him from 1995 onward.[9] They married in November 2013.[10]

In June 2012, Carroll reported that White was making a "remarkable" recovery after suffering two strokes in previous months.[11] He has also had a heart attack.[12]

Influences edit

In his 2005 memoir My Lives, White cites Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and André Gide as influences, writing: "they convinced me that homosexuality was crucial to the development of the modern novel because it led to a resurrection of love, a profound scepticism about the naturalness of gender roles and a revival of the classical tradition of same-sex love that dominated Western poetry and prose until the birth of Christ".[13]

His favorite living writers in the early 1970s were Vladimir Nabokov and Christopher Isherwood.[14]

Literary career edit

White wrote books and plays while a youth, including one unpublished novel titled Mrs Morrigan.[2]

Much of White's work draws on his experience of being gay. His debut novel, Forgetting Elena (1973), set on an island, can be read as commenting on gay culture in a coded manner.[15][16] The Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov called it "a marvelous book".[14] Written with his psychotherapist[17] Charles Silverstein, The Joy of Gay Sex (1977) made him known to a wider readership.[18] It is celebrated for its sex-positive tone.[19] His next novel, Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978) was explicitly gay-themed and drew on his own life.[20]

From 1980 to 1981, White was a member of a gay writers' group, The Violet Quill, which met briefly during that period, and included Andrew Holleran and Felice Picano.[21] White's autobiographic works are frank and unapologetic about his promiscuity and his HIV-positive status.[22]

In 1980, he brought out States of Desire, a survey of some aspects of gay life in America. In 1982, he helped found the group Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York City.[9][23] In the same year appeared White's best-known work, A Boy's Own Story — the first volume of an autobiographic-fiction series, continuing with The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997), describing stages in the life of a gay man from boyhood to middle age. Several characters in the latter novel are recognizably based on well-known people from White's New York-centered literary and artistic milieu.[24]

From 1983 to 1990 White lived in France. He moved there initially for one year in 1983 via the Guggenheim Fellowship for writing he had received, but took such a liking to Paris "with its drizzle, as cool, grey and luxurious as chinchilla," (as he described it in his autobiographical novel The Farewell Symphony) that he stayed there for longer.[9] French philosopher Michel Foucault invited him for dinner on several occasions, though he dismissed White's concerns about HIV/AIDS (Foucault would die of the illness shortly afterward).[9] In 1984 in Paris, shortly after discovering he was HIV-positive, White joined the French HIV/AIDS organisation, AIDES.[9] During this period, he brought out his novel, Caracole (1985), which centres on heterosexual relationships.[25] But he also maintained an interest in France and French literature, writing biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud.[26] He published Genet: a biography (1993), Our Paris: sketches from memory (1995), Marcel Proust (1998), The Flaneur: a stroll through the paradoxes of Paris (2000) and Rimbaud (2008). He spent seven years writing the biography of Genet.[9]

White came back to the United States in 1997.[2] The Married Man, a novel published in 2000, is gay-themed and draws on White's life.[27] Fanny: A Fiction (2003) is a historical novel about novelist Frances Trollope and social reformer Frances Wright in early 19th-century America.[2] White's 2006 play Terre Haute (produced in New York City in 2009) portrays discussions that take place when a prisoner, based on terrorist bomber Timothy McVeigh, is visited by a writer based on Gore Vidal. (In real life McVeigh and Vidal corresponded but did not meet.)[28]

In 2005 White published his autobiography, My Lives — organised by theme rather than chronology — and in 2009 his memoir of New York life in the 1960s and 1970s, City Boy.[13][26]

White himself was the subject of a biography by Stephen Barber. His response to the book was that Barber "had a very romantic vision of me. It was very flattering. He painted me as a brooding figure. I see myself as much more self-mocking and satirical. I just skimmed that biography. As Genet put it, I didn't want to end up resembling myself".[2]

From 1999 onwards, White became professor of creative writing in Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts.[9][29]

Awards and honors edit

White has received numerous awards and distinctions. Recipient of the inaugural Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 1989,[30] he is also the namesake of the organization's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.[31]

In 2014, Edmund White was presented with the Bonham Centre Award from the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, for his contributions to the advancement and education of issues around sexual identification.[32]

Works edit

Fiction edit

  • Forgetting Elena (1973) ISBN 978-0345358622
  • Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978) ISBN 9780312022631, OCLC 17953397
  • A Boy's Own Story (1982) ISBN 9781509813865, OCLC 952160890
  • Caracole (1985) ISBN 9780679764168, OCLC 490872532
  • The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) ISBN 9780679755401
  • Skinned Alive: Stories (1995) ISBN 9780679754756
  • The Farewell Symphony (1997) ISBN 978-0701136215
  • The Married Man (2000) ISBN 978-0679781448
  • Fanny: A Fiction (2003) ISBN 978-0701169718
  • Chaos: A Novella and Stories (2007) ISBN 9780786720057
  • Hotel de Dream (2007) ISBN 978-0060852252
  • Jack Holmes and His Friend (2012) ISBN 9781608197255, OCLC 877992500
  • Our Young Man (2016) ISBN 9781408858967, OCLC 1002723765
  • A Saint from Texas (2020) ISBN 9781635572551
  • A Previous Life (2022) ISBN 9781526632241[47]
  • The Humble Lover (2023) ISBN 9781639730889

Plays edit

Nonfiction edit

Biography edit

Memoir edit

Anthologies edit

Articles edit

  • White, Edmund. "My Women. Learning how to love them", The New Yorker, June 13, 2005. Autobiographical article excerpted from My Lives.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Edmund White". Cranbrook Schools. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Edmund White: Who are you calling a Trollope?". Tim Teeman. August 23, 2003. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  3. ^ Interview with Edmund White, David Shankbone, Wikinews, November 8, 2007.
  4. ^ "Steve Dow, Journalist". stevedow.com.au.
  5. ^ Dow, Steve (May 20, 2006). "The story of his lives". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  6. ^ "Edmund White on Stonewall, the 'Decisive Uprising' of Gay Liberation". Literary Hub. April 30, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  7. ^ White, Edmund (June 19, 2019). "How Stonewall felt – to someone who was there". The Guardian. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  8. ^ White, Edmund (1988). The Beautiful Room is Empty. Vintage International. p. 226. ISBN 0-679-75540-3.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Landau, Elizabeth (May 25, 2011). "HIV in the '80s: 'People didn't want to kiss you on the cheek'". CNN. Retrieved September 28, 2022. White isn't a religious or 'New Age-y' person and considers himself an atheist.
  10. ^ "Q&A With Edmund White". The Nation. March 27, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2023.
  11. ^ Reece, Phil (June 1, 2012). "Edmund White's partner after stroke: 'his improvement is remarkable'". Washington Balde. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  12. ^ "Living With Edmund White". The New York Times. July 24, 2020. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  13. ^ a b Cartwight, Justin (September 25, 2005). "My Lives by Edmund White". The Independent. London. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  14. ^ a b White, Edmund (2009). . City Boy. Archived from the original on September 26, 2015. Gerald Clarke...had gone to Montreux to do an interview with Nabokov for Esquire, and followed the usual drill...On his last evening in Switzerland he confronted Nabokov over drinks: 'So whom do you like?' he asked—since the great man had so far only listed his dislikes and aversions. 'Edmund White' Nabokov responded. 'He wrote Forgetting Elena. It's a marvelous book." He'd then gone on to list titles by John Updike and Delmore Schwartz (particularly the short story "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities"), as well as Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy among a few others.
  15. ^ "Review: Forgetting Elena". August 7, 2020. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  16. ^ White, Edmund (1984). Forgetting Elena ; and, Nocturnes for the King of Naples. Pan Books. ISBN 9780330283748. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  17. ^ Altmann, Jennifer (July–August 2021). "Trailblazer in Gay Lit" (PDF). Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
  18. ^ "'The Joy of Gay Sex' Is 44 Years Old. Let's Celebrate Its Provocative Illustrations". Hornet. July 26, 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  19. ^ Hoffman, Wayne (October 17, 2017). "Why The Joy of Gay Sex Still Has Much to Teach Readers, 40 Years Later". Slate. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  20. ^ Yohalem, John (December 10, 1978). "Apostrophes to a Dead Lover". The New York Times. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  21. ^ Summers, Claude J. . The GLBTQ encyclopedia. Archived from the original on September 26, 2007.
  22. ^ Mascolini, Mark (August 2005). "AIDS, Arts and Responsibilities: An Interview With Edmund White". The Body. Retrieved June 22, 2014.
  23. ^ Wood, Gaby (January 3, 2010). "A walk on the wild side in 70s New York". The Guardian. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
  24. ^ Benfey, Christopher (September 14, 1997). "The Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
  25. ^ "Caracole by Edmund White". September 18, 1985. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  26. ^ a b Parini, Jay (January 16, 2010). "City Boy by Edmund White, and Chaos by Edmund White". The Guardian. Retrieved September 28, 2022. In My Lives: An Autobiography (2005), White dug into his primary material with clinical savagery, examining his life not in chronological terms but by subjects, such as 'My Shrinks', 'My Hustlers' and so on.
  27. ^ Aletti, Vince (May 23, 2000). "Amour No More". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  28. ^ Lovendusky, Eugene (April 11, 2007). "Review: White's 'Terre Haute' Haunts". BroadwayWorld. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  29. ^ . Princeton University. Archived from the original on March 5, 2008.
  30. ^ a b "The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement". Publishing Triangle. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  31. ^ "Awards".
  32. ^ "The 2014 Bonham Centre Awards Gala celebrates Power of the Word on April 24, 2014, honouring authors and writers who have contributed to the public understanding of sexual diversity in Canada". pennantmediagroup.com.
  33. ^ a b c d "Edmund White". Albany.edu. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  34. ^ "4th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". July 13, 1992. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  35. ^ "Edmund White Delivers Kessler Lecture – CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies". Retrieved May 15, 2022.
  36. ^ "Person, Place, Thing". New York University Arts and Letters. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  37. ^ "1994 Pulitzer Prizes". Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  38. ^ "6th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". July 13, 1994. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  39. ^ "Edmund White to receive Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters". Princeton University. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  40. ^ Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (July 14, 1996). . Archived from the original on March 4, 2012.
  41. ^ "10th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". July 14, 1998. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  42. ^ "13th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". July 9, 2002. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  43. ^ "Stonewall Book Awards List". American Library Association. September 9, 2009. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  44. ^ "2018 PEN American Lifetime Career and Achievement Awards". PEN America. February 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  45. ^ "You searched for edmund white". PEN America. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  46. ^ "NBF to Present Lifetime Achievement Award to Pioneering Writer Edmund White". National Book Foundation. September 2019. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  47. ^ . Bloomsbury. Archived from the original on January 26, 2022. Retrieved January 26, 2022.

Further reading edit

  • Doten, Mark. "Interview with Edmund White" March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Bookslut, February 2007.
  • Fleming, Keith. "Uncle Ed". Granta 68 (Winter 1999). (A memoir by Edmund White's nephew who lived with White in the 1970s.)
  • Morton, Paul. (April 6, 2006) , EconoCulture. Retrieved April 29, 2006.
  • Teeman, Tim. (July 29, 2006) "Inside a mind set to explode", The Times (London). Retrieved January 9, 2007.

External links edit

 
Wikinews has related news:
  • Edmund White on writing, incest, life and Larry Kramer
 
Wikiquote has quotations related to Edmund White.
  • Edmund White Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  • Jordan Elgrably (Fall 1988). "Edmund White, The Art of Fiction No. 105". The Paris Review. Fall 1988 (108).
  • Interview with Edmund White[permanent dead link], Untitled Books
  • of Edmund White's lecture "A Man's Own Story", delivered at the Key West Literary Seminar, January 2008
  • Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval on The Book Show, ABC Radio National November 7, 2007
  • White article archive and bio from The New York Review of Books
  • An excerpt from White's memoir City Boy

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edmund, white, english, cricketer, cricketer, confused, with, white, edmund, valentine, white, born, january, 1940, american, novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer, essayist, literary, social, topics, since, 1999, been, professor, princeton, university, . For the English cricketer see Edmund White cricketer Not to be confused with E B 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 Edmund WhiteWhite photographed by David ShankboneBornEdmund Valentine White III 1940 01 13 January 13 1940 age 84 Cincinnati Ohio U S OccupationNovelist short story writer non fiction writerNationalityAmericanAlma materUniversity of MichiganCranbrook SchoolPeriod1970s presentNotable worksThe Joy of Gay Sex 1977 A Boy s Own Story 1982 The Beautiful Room Is Empty 1988 The Farewell Symphony 1997 Notable awardsGuggenheim 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 2018SpouseMichael CarrollWebsiteedmundwhite wbr comWhite 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 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Personal life 3 Influences 4 Literary career 5 Awards and honors 6 Works 6 1 Fiction 6 2 Plays 6 3 Nonfiction 6 3 1 Biography 6 3 2 Memoir 6 3 3 Anthologies 6 3 4 Articles 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External linksEarly life and education editEdmund Valentine White mostly grew up in Chicago Illinois 1 He attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills Michigan as a boy Afterward he studied Chinese at the University of Michigan graduating in 1962 1 Incestuous feelings colored his early family life White stated that his mother for instance was sexually attracted to him 2 He moreover spoke of his own attraction to his father I think with my father he was somebody who every eye in the family was focused on and he was a sort of a tyrant and nice looking the source of all power money happiness and he was implacable and difficult He was always spoken of in sexual terms in the sense he left our mother for a much younger woman who was very sexy but had nothing else going for her He was a famous womanizer And he slept with my sister 3 He has also stated Writing has always been my recourse when I ve tried to make sense of my experience or when it s been very painful When I was 15 years old I wrote my first unpublished novel about being gay at a time when there were no other gay novels So I was really inventing a genre and it was a way of administering a therapy to myself I suppose 4 5 White was present at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 when the Stonewall uprising began 6 He later wrote Ours may have been the first funny revolution 7 When someone shouted Gay is good in imitation of Black is beautiful we all laughed Then I caught myself foolishly imagining that gays might someday constitute a community rather than a diagnosis 8 White declined admission to Harvard University s Chinese doctoral program in favor of following a lover to New York There he freelanced for Newsweek and spent seven years working as a staffer at Time Life Books 1 After briefly relocating to Rome San Francisco and then returning to New York he was briefly employed as an editor for the Saturday Review when the magazine was based in San Francisco in the early 1970s after the magazine folded in 1973 White returned to New York to edit Horizon a quarterly cultural journal and freelance as a writer and editor for entities such as Time Life and The New Republic 1 Personal life editWhite identifies as gay and is also an atheist though he was reared as a Christian Scientist 2 9 He discovered he was HIV positive in 1985 9 However he is a non progressor one of the small percentage of cases that have not led to AIDS 2 He is in a long term open relationship with the American writer Michael Carroll 2 living with him from 1995 onward 9 They married in November 2013 10 In June 2012 Carroll reported that White was making a remarkable recovery after suffering two strokes in previous months 11 He has also had a heart attack 12 Influences editIn his 2005 memoir My Lives White cites Jean Genet Marcel Proust and Andre Gide as influences writing they convinced me that homosexuality was crucial to the development of the modern novel because it led to a resurrection of love a profound scepticism about the naturalness of gender roles and a revival of the classical tradition of same sex love that dominated Western poetry and prose until the birth of Christ 13 His favorite living writers in the early 1970s were Vladimir Nabokov and Christopher Isherwood 14 Literary career editWhite wrote books and plays while a youth including one unpublished novel titled Mrs Morrigan 2 Much of White s work draws on his experience of being gay His debut novel Forgetting Elena 1973 set on an island can be read as commenting on gay culture in a coded manner 15 16 The Russian American novelist Vladimir Nabokov called it a marvelous book 14 Written with his psychotherapist 17 Charles Silverstein The Joy of Gay Sex 1977 made him known to a wider readership 18 It is celebrated for its sex positive tone 19 His next novel Nocturnes for the King of Naples 1978 was explicitly gay themed and drew on his own life 20 From 1980 to 1981 White was a member of a gay writers group The Violet Quill which met briefly during that period and included Andrew Holleran and Felice Picano 21 White s autobiographic works are frank and unapologetic about his promiscuity and his HIV positive status 22 In 1980 he brought out States of Desire a survey of some aspects of gay life in America In 1982 he helped found the group Gay Men s Health Crisis in New York City 9 23 In the same year appeared White s best known work A Boy s Own Story the first volume of an autobiographic fiction series continuing with The Beautiful Room Is Empty 1988 and The Farewell Symphony 1997 describing stages in the life of a gay man from boyhood to middle age Several characters in the latter novel are recognizably based on well known people from White s New York centered literary and artistic milieu 24 From 1983 to 1990 White lived in France He moved there initially for one year in 1983 via the Guggenheim Fellowship for writing he had received but took such a liking to Paris with its drizzle as cool grey and luxurious as chinchilla as he described it in his autobiographical novel The Farewell Symphony that he stayed there for longer 9 French philosopher Michel Foucault invited him for dinner on several occasions though he dismissed White s concerns about HIV AIDS Foucault would die of the illness shortly afterward 9 In 1984 in Paris shortly after discovering he was HIV positive White joined the French HIV AIDS organisation AIDES 9 During this period he brought out his novel Caracole 1985 which centres on heterosexual relationships 25 But he also maintained an interest in France and French literature writing biographies of Jean Genet Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud 26 He published Genet a biography 1993 Our Paris sketches from memory 1995 Marcel Proust 1998 The Flaneur a stroll through the paradoxes of Paris 2000 and Rimbaud 2008 He spent seven years writing the biography of Genet 9 White came back to the United States in 1997 2 The Married Man a novel published in 2000 is gay themed and draws on White s life 27 Fanny A Fiction 2003 is a historical novel about novelist Frances Trollope and social reformer Frances Wright in early 19th century America 2 White s 2006 play Terre Haute produced in New York City in 2009 portrays discussions that take place when a prisoner based on terrorist bomber Timothy McVeigh is visited by a writer based on Gore Vidal In real life McVeigh and Vidal corresponded but did not meet 28 In 2005 White published his autobiography My Lives organised by theme rather than chronology and in 2009 his memoir of New York life in the 1960s and 1970s City Boy 13 26 White himself was the subject of a biography by Stephen Barber His response to the book was that Barber had a very romantic vision of me It was very flattering He painted me as a brooding figure I see myself as much more self mocking and satirical I just skimmed that biography As Genet put it I didn t want to end up resembling myself 2 From 1999 onwards White became professor of creative writing in Princeton University s Lewis Center for the Arts 9 29 Awards and honors editWhite has received numerous awards and distinctions Recipient of the inaugural Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 1989 30 he is also the namesake of the organization s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction 31 In 2014 Edmund White was presented with the Bonham Centre Award from the Mark S Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies University of Toronto for his contributions to the advancement and education of issues around sexual identification 32 1983 Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts 9 1988 Lambda Literary Award for The Beautiful Room Is Empty 33 1989 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement 30 1992 Lambda Literary Award nomination for Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction 34 1993 David R Kessler Award in LGBTQ Studies CLAGS The Center for LGBTQ Studies 35 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography for Genet 33 1993 Chevalier and later Officier de l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 33 36 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography nomination for Genet A Biography 37 1994 Lambda Literary Award for Genet A Biography 38 1996 Member American Academy of Arts and Letters 39 1996 Lambda Literary Award nomination for Our Paris 40 1998 Lambda Literary Award nomination for The Farewell Symphony 41 2001 Lambda Literary Award nomination for The Married Man 42 2002 Stonewall Book Award for Loss within Loss Artists in the Age of AIDS 43 2016 2018 New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit 33 2018 PEN Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction 44 45 2019 National Book Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award 46 Works editFiction edit Forgetting Elena 1973 ISBN 978 0345358622 Nocturnes for the King of Naples 1978 ISBN 9780312022631 OCLC 17953397 A Boy s Own Story 1982 ISBN 9781509813865 OCLC 952160890 Caracole 1985 ISBN 9780679764168 OCLC 490872532 The Beautiful Room Is Empty 1988 ISBN 9780679755401 Skinned Alive Stories 1995 ISBN 9780679754756 The Farewell Symphony 1997 ISBN 978 0701136215 The Married Man 2000 ISBN 978 0679781448 Fanny A Fiction 2003 ISBN 978 0701169718 Chaos A Novella and Stories 2007 ISBN 9780786720057 Hotel de Dream 2007 ISBN 978 0060852252 Jack Holmes and His Friend 2012 ISBN 9781608197255 OCLC 877992500 Our Young Man 2016 ISBN 9781408858967 OCLC 1002723765 A Saint from Texas 2020 ISBN 9781635572551 A Previous Life 2022 ISBN 9781526632241 47 The Humble Lover 2023 ISBN 9781639730889Plays edit Terre Haute 2006 ISBN 978 0713687941Nonfiction edit The Joy of Gay Sex with Charles Silverstein 1977 ISBN 9780517531587 States of Desire 1980 ISBN 9780525480686 The Burning Library Writings on Art Politics and Sexuality 1969 1993 1994 ISBN 9780679434757 OCLC 33488913 The Flaneur A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris 2000 ISBN 978 0747596875 Arts and Letters 2004 ISBN 9781573442480 OCLC 69485728 Sacred Monsters 2011 ISBN 9781936833115Biography edit Genet A Biography 1993 ISBN 9780099450078 OCLC 61423716 Marcel Proust 1998 ISBN 9780143114987 OCLC 233547908 Rimbaud The Double Life of a Rebel 2008 ISBN 9781843549710 OCLC 600721506Memoir edit Our Paris Sketches from Memory 1995 ISBN 9780060085926 My Lives 2005 ISBN 978 0066213972 City Boy 2009 ISBN 9781608192342 OCLC 667235827 Inside a Pearl My Years in Paris 2014 ISBN 9781620406335 OCLC 881092866 The Unpunished Vice A Life of Reading 2018 ISBN 9781635571172Anthologies edit The Darker Proof Stories from a Crisis with Adam Mars Jones 1988 9 In Another Part of the Forest An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction 1994 ISBN 978 0517881569 The Art of the Story 2000 ISBN 978 0140296389 A Fine Excess Contemporary Literature at Play 2001 ISBN 9781889330518Articles edit White Edmund My Women Learning how to love them The New Yorker June 13 2005 Autobiographical article excerpted from My Lives See also edit nbsp Biography portal nbsp Books portal nbsp Chicago portal nbsp China portal nbsp Christianity portal nbsp France portal nbsp Human sexuality portal nbsp Journalism portal nbsp Literature portal nbsp LGBT portal nbsp New York state portal nbsp Novels portal nbsp Ohio portal nbsp United States portal nbsp Viruses portal nbsp Writing portalLGBT culture in New York City List of American novelists List of LGBT writers List of LGBT people from New York CityReferences edit a b c d Edmund White Cranbrook Schools Retrieved August 30 2020 a b c d e f g h Edmund White Who are you calling a Trollope Tim Teeman August 23 2003 Retrieved August 30 2020 Interview with Edmund White David Shankbone Wikinews November 8 2007 Steve Dow Journalist stevedow com au Dow Steve May 20 2006 The story of his lives The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved August 30 2020 Edmund White on Stonewall the Decisive Uprising of Gay Liberation Literary Hub April 30 2019 Retrieved August 10 2021 White Edmund June 19 2019 How Stonewall felt to someone who was there The Guardian Retrieved August 10 2021 White Edmund 1988 The Beautiful Room is Empty Vintage International p 226 ISBN 0 679 75540 3 a b c d e f g h i j k Landau Elizabeth May 25 2011 HIV in the 80s People didn t want to kiss you on the cheek CNN Retrieved September 28 2022 White isn t a religious or New Age y person and considers himself an atheist Q amp A With Edmund White The Nation March 27 2014 Retrieved July 1 2023 Reece Phil June 1 2012 Edmund White s partner after stroke his improvement is remarkable Washington Balde Retrieved May 16 2013 Living With Edmund White The New York Times July 24 2020 Retrieved September 28 2022 a b Cartwight Justin September 25 2005 My Lives by Edmund White The Independent London Retrieved September 28 2022 a b White Edmund 2009 How did one edit Nabokov City Boy Archived from the original on September 26 2015 Gerald Clarke had gone to Montreux to do an interview with Nabokov for Esquire and followed the usual drill On his last evening in Switzerland he confronted Nabokov over drinks So whom do you like he asked since the great man had so far only listed his dislikes and aversions Edmund White Nabokov responded He wrote Forgetting Elena It s a marvelous book He d then gone on to list titles by John Updike and Delmore Schwartz particularly the short story In Dreams Begin Responsibilities as well as Robbe Grillet s Jealousy among a few others Review Forgetting Elena August 7 2020 Retrieved September 28 2022 White Edmund 1984 Forgetting Elena and Nocturnes for the King of Naples Pan Books ISBN 9780330283748 Retrieved September 28 2022 Altmann Jennifer July August 2021 Trailblazer in Gay Lit PDF Princeton Alumni Weekly Retrieved September 18 2021 The Joy of Gay Sex Is 44 Years Old Let s Celebrate Its Provocative Illustrations Hornet July 26 2021 Retrieved August 12 2021 Hoffman Wayne October 17 2017 Why The Joy of Gay Sex Still Has Much to Teach Readers 40 Years Later Slate Retrieved August 12 2021 Yohalem John December 10 1978 Apostrophes to a Dead Lover The New York Times Retrieved September 25 2015 Summers Claude J The Violet Quill The GLBTQ encyclopedia Archived from the original on September 26 2007 Mascolini Mark August 2005 AIDS Arts and Responsibilities An Interview With Edmund White The Body Retrieved June 22 2014 Wood Gaby January 3 2010 A walk on the wild side in 70s New York The Guardian Retrieved May 1 2010 Benfey Christopher September 14 1997 The Dead The New York Times Retrieved March 12 2013 Caracole by Edmund White September 18 1985 Retrieved September 28 2022 a b Parini Jay January 16 2010 City Boy by Edmund White and Chaos by Edmund White The Guardian Retrieved September 28 2022 In My Lives An Autobiography 2005 White dug into his primary material with clinical savagery examining his life not in chronological terms but by subjects such as My Shrinks My Hustlers and so on Aletti Vince May 23 2000 Amour No More The Village Voice New York Retrieved September 28 2022 Lovendusky Eugene April 11 2007 Review White s Terre Haute Haunts BroadwayWorld Retrieved September 28 2022 The Program in Creative Writing Princeton University Princeton University Archived from the original on March 5 2008 a b The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement Publishing Triangle Retrieved August 30 2020 Awards The 2014 Bonham Centre Awards Gala celebrates Power of the Word on April 24 2014 honouring authors and writers who have contributed to the public understanding of sexual diversity in Canada pennantmediagroup com a b c d Edmund White Albany edu Retrieved August 30 2020 4th Annual Lambda Literary Awards July 13 1992 Retrieved September 28 2022 Edmund White Delivers Kessler Lecture CLAGS Center for LGBTQ Studies Retrieved May 15 2022 Person Place Thing New York University Arts and Letters Retrieved August 30 2020 1994 Pulitzer Prizes Retrieved September 28 2022 6th Annual Lambda Literary Awards July 13 1994 Retrieved September 28 2022 Edmund White to receive Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Princeton University Retrieved August 30 2020 Cerna Antonio Gonzalez July 14 1996 8th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Archived from the original on March 4 2012 10th Annual Lambda Literary Awards July 14 1998 Retrieved September 28 2022 13th Annual Lambda Literary Awards July 9 2002 Retrieved September 28 2022 Stonewall Book Awards List American Library Association September 9 2009 Retrieved November 18 2020 2018 PEN American Lifetime Career and Achievement Awards PEN America February 2017 Retrieved February 7 2018 You searched for edmund white PEN America Retrieved August 30 2020 NBF to Present Lifetime Achievement Award to Pioneering Writer Edmund White National Book Foundation September 2019 Retrieved September 28 2022 A Previous Life Bloomsbury Archived from the original on January 26 2022 Retrieved January 26 2022 Further reading editDoten Mark Interview with Edmund White Archived March 5 2016 at the Wayback Machine Bookslut February 2007 Fleming Keith Uncle Ed Granta 68 Winter 1999 A memoir by Edmund White s nephew who lived with White in the 1970s Morton Paul April 6 2006 Interview Edmund White EconoCulture Retrieved April 29 2006 Teeman Tim July 29 2006 Inside a mind set to explode The Times London Retrieved January 9 2007 External links edit nbsp Wikinews has related news Edmund White on writing incest life and Larry Kramer nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Edmund White Official website Official webpage at Princeton Edmund White Papers Yale Collection of American Literature Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Jordan Elgrably Fall 1988 Edmund White The Art of Fiction No 105 The Paris Review Fall 1988 108 Interview with Edmund White permanent dead link Untitled Books of Edmund White s lecture A Man s Own Story delivered at the Key West Literary Seminar January 2008 Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval on The Book Show ABC Radio National November 7 2007 White article archive and bio from The New York Review of Books An excerpt from White s memoir City Boy Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Edmund White amp oldid 1188972153, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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