Biography of Edmund White

Edmund White is the author of twenty books including novels, short stories, essays, travel books and biographies. His magisterial biography of Jean Genet won the National Book Critics' Circle Award and his short biography of Marcel Proust was a best seller. His trilogy of autobiographical novels - A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty and The Farewell Symphony - have become classics of contemporary gay Literature. White has been called America's Marcel Proust and Le Monde compared him to Henry James. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an officer in the French Order of Arts and Letters. He lived in Paris for 16 years in the 1980s and 90s and his books - Our Paris and The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris -have won him a wide popular audience. He teaches creative writing at Princeton and lives in New York. His memoir, My Lives, was published last year to much acclaim. Terre Haute was developed at the Sundance Festival in Utah. In September 2007, Bloomsbury is publishing a new novel, Hotel de Dream.