Edmund White

Awards

Won 1 Lambda Literary Award Award

Lambda Literary Award 1 won

• ★ — Lambda Literary Award Won

Guggenheim Fellowship 1 won

• ★ — Guggenheim Fellowship Won

National Book Award 1 won

• ★ 2019 National Book Award Won

Otherwise Award 1 nominated

• ◦ 1996 Otherwise Award Nominated

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Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love. His books include The Joy of Gay Sex, written with Charles Silverstein (1977); his trilogy of semi-autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997); and his biography of Jean Genet. [Source: Wikipedia]