He moved to the City in July of ‘62 after majoring in Chinese at the University of Michigan and was accepted at Harvard to do his PhD but opted to move to Greenwich Village to live with his first boyfriend. In City Boy, White chronicles his life in New York City during the 60s and 70s. He still contributes to the New York Times Book Review. White is an essayist and he also worked as a correspondent at French Vogue for a decade. Rounding out his trilogy of autobiographies he followed this up with The Beautiful Room Is Empty and The Farewell Symphony. It is his memoir A Boy’s Own Story that splashed Mr. He was also named the 2018 winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. White was made an officer in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and won a literary prize from the Festival of Deauville. His conversational and irreverent style of writing has garnered him many awards. He is also the co-author of The Joy Of Gay Sex. He unabashedly shares with his readers his deepest and often darkest thoughts about life and sex. White is the undisputed “silverdaddy” of gay literature. He’s famous for his self-deprecating sense of humor as well as his twinkling and often mischievous wit. August 2020 saw the launch of A Saint From Texas, Edmund White’s 29th book.
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