Edmund White
Edmund White
Edmund Valentine White IIIis an American novelist, memoirist, and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love. Probably his best-known books are The Joy of Gay Sexand his trio of autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Emptyand The Farewell Symphony...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 January 1940
CountryUnited States of America
became editor saturday staff
I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'
cultural gay life men mix problem rarely seldom since strangers
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
bad beauty effect interested name terribly truth writer
My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.
french good
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
everybody good quite though
I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.
death
I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.