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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he largely grew up in Chicago and later worked in New York as a journalist. From 1983 to 1990 he lived in France. His best-known work is perhaps A Boy's Own Story, the first volume of an autobiographical-fiction trilogy that continued with The Beautiful Room Is Empty and The Farewell Symphony. Most of his fictional work is set in a contemporary gay milieu, although his later work draws on a broader range of themes. He has also been influential as a literary and cultural critic, particularly on gay issues, and has been open in his discussion of his HIV-positive status for nearly two decades. Cincinnati, Ohio viewed from the SW, across the Ohio River from Kentucky. ... Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus (largest metropolitan area is Cleveland) Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 34th 116,096 km² 355 km 355 km 8. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ... In modern society, gay is a word which can be used as either a noun or adjective. ... Human immunodeficiency virus, commonly known by the initialism HIV, formerly known as HTLV-III and lymphadenopathy-associated virus, is a retrovirus that primarily infects vital components of the human immune system such as CD4+ T cells, macrophages and dendritic cells. ...

Works

Fiction

• Forgetting Elena (1973)
• Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978)
• A Boy's Own Story (1982)
• Caracole (1985)
• The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988)
• The Farewell Symphony (1998)
• The Married Man (2000)
• Fanny: A Fiction (2003)

A Boys Own Story book cover A Boy’s Own Story is a 1982 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White. ...

Nonfiction

• The Joy of Gay Sex, with Charles Silverstein (1977)
• States of Desire (1980)
• The Burning Library: Writings on Art, Politics and Sexuality 1969-1993 (1994)
• The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris (2000)
• Arts and Letters (2004)

Biography

• Jean Genet (1993)
• Marcel Proust (1998)

Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 - April 15, 1986), was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. ...

Memoir

• Our Paris: Sketches from Memory (1995)
• My Lives (2006)

Anthologies

• The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis (1987)
• In Another Part Of The Forest: : An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994)
• The Art of the Story (2000)
• A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play (2001)

External links

• Edmund White's home page
• Edmund White: My Women. Learning how to love them The New Yorker June 13, 2005. Autobiographical article
• Audio interviews with Edmund White by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio
• Interview about his new memoir [1]

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References/Appearances

• His "A Boys Own Story" is referred to in Queer As Folk (U.S.) Episode 4.10. Ben Brucker discusses an offscreen White reading with student Anthony.