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Edmund White (1940-2025) Novelist, memoirist. Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Edmund Valentine White III

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1940

Birth

Edmund Valentine White III was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on January 13, 1940.

1973

Literary Work

Forgetting Elena
Random House
0394483413 / 978-0394483412
Novel.

1978

Literary Work

Nocturnes for the King of Naples
St. Martin’s Press
0312576536 / 978-0312576530
Novel.

1982

Literary Work

A Boy’s Own Story
Dutton Adult
0525241663 / 978-0525241287
Novel.

1988

Literary Work

The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Knopf
0394564448 / 978-0394564449
Novel.

1993

Literary Work

Genet: A Biography
Knopf
0394571711 / 978-0394571713
Biography.

1997

Literary Work

The Farewell Symphony
Trafalgar Square
0701136219 / 978-0701136215
Novel.

2005

Literary Work

My Lives
Trafalgar Square
0747575223 / 978-0747575221
Memoir.

2009

Literary Work

City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
Bloomsbury Publishing
9780747592136 / 978-0747592136
Memoir.

2014

Literary Work

Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris
Bloomsbury USA
1608195821 / 978-1608195824
Memoir.

2025

Literary Work

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
Bloomsbury Publishing
1639733728 / 978-1639733729
Memoir.

2025

Death

New York County: Edmund White died at his home in Manhattan, New York, on June 3, 2025.

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