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.
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Gay men, Fiction, Biography, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, New York Times reviewed, Gay authors, AIDS (Disease), Authors, biography, Fiction, gay, Fiction, general, Gay, Gay men, fiction, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Social life and customs, American Authors, Fiction - General, Gay men's writings, American, Homes and haunts, American Novelists, History, Patients, American fiction, Americans, Biographies, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
France, United States, Paris, New York, Paris (France), New York (N.Y.), New York (State), 4e Arrondissement, 4e Arrondissement (Paris, France), Christopher Street, Midwest, Stonewall InnPeople
Edmund White (1940-), Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), Hubert Sorin, 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
- Integrated Authority File (GND): 121588912
- 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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Alternative names
- Edmund WHITE
- EDMUND WHITE
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