Edmund White
1940-01-13 – 2025-06-03
70 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
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*.
Also published as: Edmund WHITE, EDMUND WHITE
Most-read books
A boy's own story
4 · 1982 · 73 want to read
The Flaneur
2001 · 24 want to read
The Other Persuasion
4 · 1977 · 22 want to read
The Vintage Book of Amnesia
2000 · 20 want to read
The Farewell Symphony
4 · 1997 · 16 want to read
Nocturnes for the King of Naples
4 · 1978 · 15 want to read
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
1988 · 12 want to read
Genet
1988 · 12 want to read
My Lives
2005 · 8 want to read
States of desire
1980 · 8 want to read
A boy's own story ; and, The beautiful room is empty
1993 · 8 want to read
Jack Holmes and his friend
4 · 2012 · 7 want to read
Bad Company
4 · 2002 · 6 want to read
Proust
1999 · 6 want to read
Chaos
4 · 2007 · 4 want to read
Fanny
4 · 2003 · 5 want to read
The Faber book of gay short fiction
1991 · 6 want to read
Gay Travels
1998 · 6 want to read
Arts and letters
2004 · 6 want to read
Caracole
4 · 1985 · 5 want to read
The Violet Quill Reader
1994 · 5 want to read
City Boy
2009 · 4 want to read
Forgetting Elena
4 · 1973 · 3 want to read
Sketches from memory
1994 · 4 want to read