White, Edmund
White, Edmund ( 1940 – ),American novelist and essayist, born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Nocturnes for the King of Naples ( 1978 ) is a non-realistic novel dealing with homosexual themes which were pursued more realistically in A Boy's Own Story ( 1982 ), a poignant, poetic, frank, yet restrained first-person narration describing the gay adolescence of a child of divorced parents, both of whom are vividly evoked. This work brought him much acclaim, and was followed by the sequels The Beautiful Room Is Empty ( 1988 ) and The Farewell Symphony ( 1997 ), the last of which moves into the AIDS era. His other works include States of Desire: Travels in Gay America ( 1980 ); Caracole ( 1985 ), a Venetian fairy story; The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis ( 1987 , with A. Mars-Jones ), and a biography of Genet ( 1993 ).
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