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Edmund White

(b.1940)

Edmund Valentine White III is an American novelist, short-story writer and critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.

Genres: Literary Fiction

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January 2025

The Loves of My Life

Series

Boy's Own Story
   1. A Boy's Own Story (1982)
   2. The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988)
   3. The Farewell Symphony (1997)

Novels

   Forgetting Elena (1973)
   Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978)
   Caracole (1985)
   The Married Man (2000)
   Fanny (2003)
   Hotel de Dream (2007)
   Jack Holmes and His Friend (2012)
   Our Young Man (2016)
   A Saint from Texas (2020)
   A Previous Life (2022)
   The Humble Lover (2023)

Collections

   The Darker Proof (1987) (with Adam Mars-Jones)
   Skinned Alive (1995)
   Chaos (2007)

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Edmund White recommends

Choice (2024)
Neel Mukherjee
"Neel Mukherjee is a great novelist... He knows how to clothe ethical conflicts with sweeping narrative and convincing detail. The range of his knowledge-from London intellectual and professional life today to the precarious hardships of the 'ultra-poor' in Bengal-is shockingly deep. He is a writer of genius."

All the World Beside (2024)
Garrard Conley
"Teaches us that in Puritan America the scarlet letter was not A for adultery but H for homosexuality and that the only romance with God is tense and tragic."

The Future Future (2023)
Adam Thirlwell
"A landmark-precisely because it's so deeply embedded in our history and is so unthinkably original."

God's Children Are Little Broken Things (2022)
Arinze Ifeakandu
"These are heartbreaking stories of love and loss, as granular and nourishing as the harmattan, the cold winter wind that blows out of the Sahara. Ifeakandu is a writer of lyricism and profundity at the beginning of a brilliant career."

Acts of Service (2022)
Lillian Fishman
"A book of exquisite moral refinement and almost intimidating elegance."

My Father's Diet (2022)
Adrian Nathan West
"Imagine a precise, refined eye looking at all the grotesque realities of mall life in Middle America and you'll have a sense of My Father's Diet. It's as if the Joyce of Dubliners were looking at Akron."

To Paradise (2022)
Hanya Yanagihara
"Hanya Yanagihara's TO PARADISE is as good as WAR AND PEACE."

The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus (2021)
Allan Gurganus
"Allan Gurganus is our verbal magician. He turns factual rabbits into poetic doves. Every sentence contains a surprise, but the brilliant surface doesn’t dazzle us from peering into the tender human depths."

Shelter in Place (2020)
David Leavitt
"Leavitt is a master stylist ... An important writer. He is the rarest of all birds - a man of letters."

What Happens at Night (2020)
Peter Cameron
"This book is a masterpiece - reading it reminds me of the first time I read Kafka. A whole new vision is suddenly revealed: unique, unexpected, unforgettable. Get ready for a new adjective: Cameronesque."

The Bright Lands (2020)
John Fram
"The Bright Lands is Gothic and Faulknerian: smooth, original, haunting. And very sexy."

Heaven and Earth (2020)
Paolo Giordano
"A perfect novel. Giordano is one of the handful of great writers working anywhere today."

A Luminous Republic (2020)
Andrés Barba
"One of the best books I’ve ever read . . . There is an air of magic, black and white, lingering around every page of this epic novel of 192 pages, like gun smoke after a shootout. I say ‘epic’ because it feels as full, as dense with duration, as if it were 1,000 pages long, but can be read in an evening . . . This is a book at once heavy and light, Caliban and Ariel, somber and comic. It will open your eyes."

The Stranger Game (2018)
Peter Gadol
"Imagine a metaphysical thriller inspired by Patrick Modiano and illustrated by Giorgio Di Chirico and you’ll have an idea of this enigmatic novel, The Stranger Game."

The Language of Houses (2014)
Alison Lurie
"Alison Lurie, in her lucid, jargon-free way, allows us to read what architecture is saying. She has culled the best ideas from a vast secondary literature and passed it all through the sieve of her brilliant mind."

What I Did Wrong (2006)
John Weir
"Extraordinary... among other things one of the best books about how ordinary folks live in New York now."

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Books containing stories by Edmund White

Anonymous Sex (2022)
edited by
Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

It Occurs to Me That I Am America (2018)
edited by
Jonathan Santlofer

Tales of Two Cities (2015)
The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York
edited by
John Freeman

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