Edmund White






Edmund White

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born
January 13, 1940

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male

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The United States

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Literature & Fiction


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Edmund White's novels include Fanny: A Fiction, A Boy's Own Story, The Farewell Symphony, and A Married Man. He is also the author of a biography of Jean Genet, a study of Marcel Proust, The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris, and, most recently, his memoir, My Lives. Having lived in Paris for many years, he is now a New Yorker and teaches at Princeton University.




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avg rating: 3.67 | 1,921 ratings | 278 reviews | 45 distinct works | 10 fans
A Boy's Own Story A Boy's Own Story
by Edmund White
avg rating 3.63 — 351 ratings — published 1981
13 editions
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty The Beautiful Room Is Empty
by Edmund White
avg rating 3.80 — 256 ratings — published 1988
7 editions
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The Flaneur: A Stroll Through... The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
by Edmund White
avg rating 3.65 — 188 ratings — published 2001
5 editions
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The Farewell Symphony The Farewell Symphony
by Edmund White
avg rating 3.89 — 95 ratings — published 1997
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Hotel De Dream Hotel De Dream
by Edmund White
avg rating 3.52 — 101 ratings — published 2007
6 editions
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The Married Man The Married Man
by Edmund White
avg rating 3.68 — 93 ratings — published 2000
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Genet: A Biography Genet: A Biography
by Edmund White
avg rating 4.19 — 75 ratings — published 1988
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My Lives: An Autobiography My Lives: An Autobiography
by Edmund White
avg rating 3.71 — 82 ratings — published 2005
6 editions
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Marcel Proust Marcel Proust
by Edmund White
avg rating 3.68 — 72 ratings — published 1999
10 editions
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Forgetting Elena: A Novel Forgetting Elena: A Novel
by Edmund White
avg rating 3.41 — 73 ratings — published 1973
8 editions
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"The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books."
Edmund White (My Lives: An Autobiography)
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"In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of the people that come and watch the gay Halloween parade, where all those excesses are on display, those are straight families, and they think it's funny. But what people don't think is so funny is when two middle-aged lawyers who are married to each other move in next door to you and your wife and they have adopted a Korean girl and they want to send her to school with your children and they want to socialize with you and share a drink over the backyard fence. That creeps people out, especially Christians. So, I don't think gay marriage is a conservative issue. I think it's a radical issue."
Edmund White
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""Sometimes I have the feeling that we're in one room with two opposite doors and each of us holds the handle of one door, one of us flicks an eyelash and the other is already behind his door, and now the first one has but to utter a word ad immediately the second one has closed his door behind him and can no longer be seen. He's sure to open the door again for it's a room which perhaps one cannot leave. If only the first one were not precisely like the second, if he were calm, if he would only pretend not to look at the other, if he slowly set the room in order as though it were a room like any other; but instead he does exactly the same as the other at his door, sometimes even both are behind the doors and the the beautiful room is empty." Franz Kafka (in a letter to Milena Jesenska)"
Edmund White (The Beautiful Room Is Empty)
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