![]() ![]() He attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, as a boy. He is the namesake of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, awarded annually by Publishing Triangle.Įdmund Valentine White mostly grew up in Chicago, Illinois. White has also written biographies of three French writers: Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud. ![]() Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love. 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. France made him Chevalier (and later Officier) de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1993. Since 1999 he has been a professor at Princeton University. ![]() PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American FictionĮdmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics. Officier de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography ![]()
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