Edmund White

Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality....

From National Book Award-honored author Edmund White comes a wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich older man who falls in love with a young ballerino....

The Farewell Symphony is a triumph of reflection and expressive elegance. It is also a stunning and wholly original panorama of gay life over the past thirty years....

Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising - and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink....

This magisterial collection of 25 years of White's nonfiction writings includes dazzling subversive appreciations of cultural icons....

In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair....

In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure....

Edmund White is one of our most celebrated novelists. He is also a brilliant journalist and cultural commentator on the arts....

In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party....

Combining glittering wit, an atmosphere dense in social paranoia, and a breathtaking elegance and precision of language, White's first novel suggests a hilarious apotheosis of the comedy of manners....

Best-selling novelist, memoirist, and biographer Edmund White displays his sharp wit and boundless erudition in 37 portraits of the writers, artists, and cultural icons who have captured his curiosity and imagination for the last 20 years....