Edmund White
Date of Birth:
Jan 13, 1940
Place of Birth:
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Date of Birth:
Jan 13, 1940
Place of Birth:
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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]