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Edmund White (1940-2025) authored more than thirty works of fiction, memoir, and nonfiction. A pioneering figure in LGBTQ, he wrote with rare candor about gay identity, relationships, and sex. He received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. White, who joined Princeton University’s faculty in 1999 and transferred to emeritus status in 2018, lived in New York.

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Bibliography

Standalone Fiction

Forgetting Elena

Nocturnes for the King of Naples

A Boy's Own Story

Caracole

The Beautiful Room Is Empty

Our Paris: Sketches from Memory

Skinned Alive

Skinned Alive

Short story collection

The Farewell Symphony

The Married Man

Fanny

Fanny


Hotel de Dream

Jack Holmes and His Friend

Our Young Man

A Saint from Texas

A Previous Life: Another Posthumous Novel

The Humble Lover

Standalone Non-fiction

Genet: A Biography

Sketches from Memory

The Burning Library: Essays

Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS

The Flaneur

Arts and Letters

My Lives

Chaos

Chaos

Short story collection

City Boy

Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris

The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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