Edmund White’s novels include Fanny: A Fiction, A Boy’s Own Story, The Farewell Symphony, and A Married Man. He is also the author of a biography of Jean Genet, a study of Marcel Proust, The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris, and, most recently, his memoir, My Lives. Having lived in Paris for many years, he is now a New Yorker and teaches at Princeton University. He was also a member of The Violet Quill, a gay writer’s group that met briefly from 1980-81.
Books in order of publication:
Fiction
- Forgetting Elena (1973)
- Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978)
- A Boy’s Own Story (1982)
- Caracole (1985)
- The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988)
- Skinned Alive: Stories (1995)
- The Farewell Symphony (1997)
- The Married Man (2000)
- Fanny: A Fiction (2003)
- Chaos: A Novella and Stories (2007)
- Hotel de Dream (2007)
- Jack Holmes and His Friend (2012)
- Our Young Man (2016)
- A Saint from Texas (2020)
Plays
- Terre Haute (2006)
Nonfiction
- The Joy of Gay Sex, with Charles Silverstein (1977)
- States of Desire (1980)
- The Burning Library: Writings on Art, Politics and Sexuality 1969-1993 (1994)
- The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris (2000)
- Arts and Letters (2004)
- Sacred Monsters (2011)
Biography
- Genet: A Biography (1993)
- Marcel Proust (1998)
- Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel (2008)
Memoir
- Our Paris: Sketches from Memory (1995)
- My Lives (2005)
- City Boy (2009)
- Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris (2014)
- The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading (2018)
- Anthologies
- The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis, with Adam Mars-Jones (1987)
- In Another Part of the Forest: : An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994)
- The Art of the Story (2000)
- A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play (2001)
