Edmund White
b. 1940 – d. 2025 · 31 books
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*.
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*.
Books by Edmund White
Loves of My Life
Loves of My Life
Humble Lover
A Previous Life
Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story
A Saint from Texas
The unpunished vice
The unpunished vice
Our young man
Inside A Pearl
States of desire revisited
States of desire revisited
Jack Holmes and his friend
Hotel de Dream
City Boy
Fresh men
Gebrauchsanweisung für Paris.
Loss within Loss
The Flaneur
The Vintage Book of Amnesia
Edmund White/Samuel Delany, Vol. 16, No. 3
The burning library
The Violet Quill Reader
A boy's own story ; and, The beautiful room is empty
The Faber book of gay short fiction
Forgetting Elena
Intrigue in the shadow of the
Intrigue in the shadow of the guillotine
Nocturnes for the King of Naples
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
The Darker Proof
A boy's own story
States of desire
The Other Persuasion
The Penguin Book of Gay Short
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories