Edmund White: Quick Facts


Facts

Also Known As Edmund Valentine White III
Born January 13, 1940 • Cincinnati • Ohio
Died June 3, 2025 (aged 85) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “A Saint from Texas” • “Caracole” • “Forgetting Elena” • “Hotel de Dream” • “Nocturnes for the King of Naples” • “Our Young Man” • “Skinned Alive” • “Terre Haute” • “The Beautiful Room Is Empty” • “The Farewell Symphony” • “The Joy of Gay Sex” • “The Married Man”

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James Baldwin
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Joan Didion, 1970
Joan Didion
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Ishmael Reed
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William Saroyan
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June Jordan
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Henry James
Henry James
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Ernest Hemingway
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Garson Kanin
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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David Mamet
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Gore Vidal
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William Goldman
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