Author · 1940–2025
Edmund White
Edmund White was an American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025). Born in Cincinnati.
Our catalogue lists 11 books by Edmund White, mostly gay fiction and bisexual fiction. They span 1973 to 2021. The most-read is A Boy's Own Story (1982).
Books by Edmund White
A Boy's Own Story
Edmund White
The Farewell Symphony
Edmund White
Nocturnes for the King of Naples
Edmund White
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Edmund White
Jack Holmes and his friend
Edmund White
Forgetting Elena
Edmund White
Our Young Man
Edmund White
Chaos
Edmund White
The Faber book of gay short fiction
Edmund White
A Previous Life
Edmund White
The Violet Quill Reader
Edmund White, Andrew Holleran
Awards
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2015 — Gay Memoir or Biography, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2014 — LGBT Non-fiction, Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983 (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2001 — Gay Fiction, The Married Man (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 1998 — Gay Fiction, The Farewell Symphony (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 1996 — Gay Memoir or Biography, Our Paris (nominee)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 1994 — Gay Memoir or Biography, Genet (winner)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 1992 — Gay Anthology, Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (nominee)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards — Overall (winner)
- ✦Otherwise Award 1996 — Overall (nominee)
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*.