Edmund White

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)