Edmund White

Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics.

White's books include ''Forgetting Elena'' (1973), described by Vladimir Nabokov as 'marvelous'; ''Nocturnes for the King of Naples'' (1978); ''States of Desire'' (1980); and his trilogy of semi-autobiographic novels, ''A Boy's Own Story'' (1982), ''The Beautiful Room Is Empty'' (1988) and ''The Farewell Symphony'' (1997). In addition, he has written biographies of the French writers: Genet, Proust and Rimbaud.

Since 1999 he has been a professor at Princeton University. An annual prize given by Publishing Triangle is the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. France made him (and later ) de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1993. Provided by Wikipedia