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Biography
Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love. His books include The Joy of Gay Sex, written with Charles Silverstein (1977); his trilogy of semi-autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997); and his biography of Jean Genet. [Source: Wikipedia]
Awards & recognition
- National Book Award · 2019
- National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography · 1993
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Lambda Literary Award
- Otherwise Award · 1996 · nominated
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- Pulitzer Prize — Biography · 1994 · nominated
