Edmund Valentine White III is a patriarch of modern gay American literature, having contributed novels, memoirs, short stories, and essays, non-fiction as well as fiction, dealing with a range of social topics, frequently involving same-sex love.
His best-known works include The Joy of Gay Sex (with Charles Silverstein) and his autobiographic-fiction trilogy A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony.
American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025)
| Born | 1940 |
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American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025)
| Born | 1940 |
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Gay men, Fiction, Biography, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Homes and haunts, Social life and customs, Authors, biography, AIDS (Disease), New York Times reviewed, American Novelists, Fiction, gay, Gay, Gay authors, LGBTQ biography and memoir, American Authors, Americans, Patients, Biographers, Description and travel, Fiction, general, Gay men's writings, American, Gay men, fiction, History, Intellectual life, Manners and customsPlaces
France, Paris (France), Paris, United States, New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), 4e Arrondissement (Paris, France), 4e Arrondissement, Christopher Street, Midwest, Stonewall InnPeople
Edmund White (1940-), Hubert Sorin, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), Christopher Hampton (1946-), Cora Crane (1865 or 1866-1910), Frances Milton Trollope (1780-1863), Frances Wright (1795-1852), Jean Genet (1910-1986), Marcel Proust (1871-1922), Marlene Dumas, Ross Bleckner, Rudi Molacek, Stephen Crane (1871-1900)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL32847A
- BookBrainz: a1d0c720-672c-415c-9c42-5119c767f657
- GoodReads: 15975
- ISNI: 0000000121458238
- IMDb: nm0924764
- Library of Congress Names: n79082217
- MusicBrainz: aad96887-98a3-49f3-829b-f46232791427
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV064701
- VIAF: 102030733
- Wikidata: Q729117
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q729117
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| May 5, 2016 | Edited by Trey Fore | added short bio |
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