Edmund White

Edmund White grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and attended the exclusive Cranbrook School in Michigan as a boy. As he recounts in his novel The Beautiful Room is Empty, White was accepted to Harvard, but chose to stay near his therapist at home, who had assured White he could "cure" his homosexuality. He majored in Chinese at the University of Michigan.{{cite web | url=https://dof.princeton.edu/people/edmund-valentine-white-iii | title=Edmund Valentine White III | Office of the Dean of the Faculty }}

White declined admission to Harvard University's Chinese doctoral program in favor of following a lover to New York. There he freelanced for Newsweek and spent seven years working as a staffer at Time-Life Books.{{cite web|url=https://schools.cranbrook.edu/list-detail?pk=128527|title=Edmund White|website=Cranbrook Schools|language=en|access-date=August 30, 2020}} After briefly relocating to Rome, San Francisco, and then returning to New York, he was briefly employed as an editor for the Saturday Review when the magazine was based in San Francisco in the early 1970s; after the magazine folded in 1973, White returned to New York to edit Horizon (a quarterly cultural journal) and freelance as a writer and editor for entities such as Time-Life and The New Republic.

White wrote books and plays while a youth, including one unpublished novel titled Mrs Morrigan.

White's debut novel, Forgetting Elena (1973), set on an island, can be read as commenting on gay culture in a coded manner.{{cite web|url=https://www.jonayling.net/review-forgetting-elena/|title=Review: Forgetting Elena|date=August 7, 2020|access-date=September 28, 2022}}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/forgettingelenaa0000whit|title=Forgetting Elena ; and, Nocturnes for the King of Naples|first=Edmund|last=White|year=1984 |publisher=Pan Books |isbn=9780330283748 |access-date=September 28, 2022}} The Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov called it "a marvelous book".{{cite web|url=http://bloomsburybooks.tumblr.com/post/269220622/how-did-one-edit-nabokov|title=How did one edit Nabokov?|work=City Boy|first=Edmund|last=White|year=2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926112748/http://bloomsburybooks.tumblr.com/post/269220622/how-did-one-edit-nabokov|archive-date=September 26, 2015|quote=Gerald Clarke...had gone to Montreux to do an interview with Nabokov for Esquire, and followed the usual drill...On his last evening in Switzerland he confronted Nabokov over drinks: 'So whom do you like?' he asked—since the great man had so far only listed his dislikes and aversions. 'Edmund White' Nabokov responded. 'He wrote Forgetting Elena. It's a marvelous book." He'd then gone on to list titles by John Updike and Delmore Schwartz (particularly the short story "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities"), as well as Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy among a few others.}} Written with his psychotherapist{{cite news|url=https://paw.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/JulyAug2021_issue.pdf|title=Trailblazer in Gay Lit|work=Princeton Alumni Weekly|first=Jennifer|last=Altmann|date=July–August 2021|access-date=September 18, 2021}} Charles Silverstein, The Joy of Gay Sex (1977) made him known to a wider readership.{{cite news|url=https://hornet.com/stories/joy-of-gay-sex-pictures/|title='The Joy of Gay Sex' Is 44 Years Old. Let's Celebrate Its Provocative Illustrations|publisher=Hornet|language=en|date=July 26, 2021|access-date=August 12, 2021}} It is celebrated for its sex-positive tone.{{cite news|url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/10/the-joy-of-gay-sex-revisited-on-its-40th-anniversary.html|title=Why The Joy of Gay Sex Still Has Much to Teach Readers, 40 Years Later|work=Slate|language=en|first=Wayne|last=Hoffman|date=October 17, 2017|access-date=August 12, 2021}} His next novel, Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978) was explicitly gay-themed and drew on his own life.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/14/reviews/white-nocturnes.html|title=Apostrophes to a Dead Lover|work=The New York Times|first=John|last=Yohalem|date=December 10, 1978|access-date=September 25, 2015}}

From 1980 to 1981, White was a member of a gay writers' group, The Violet Quill, which met briefly during that period, and included Andrew Holleran and Felice Picano.{{cite web|url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/violetquill.html|title=The Violet Quill|publisher=The GLBTQ encyclopedia|first=Claude J.|last=Summers|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926215936/http://www.glbtq.com/literature/violetquill.html|archivedate=September 26, 2007}} White's autobiographic works are frank and unapologetic about his promiscuity and his HIV-positive status.{{cite news|url=http://www.thebody.com/content/art12352.html|title=AIDS, Arts and Responsibilities: An Interview With Edmund White|work=The Body|first=Mark|last=Mascolini|date=August 2005|access-date=June 22, 2014}}

In 1980, White brought out States of Desire, a survey of some aspects of gay life in America. In 1982, he helped found the group Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York City.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/jan/03/edmund-white-city-boy-extracts|title=A walk on the wild side in 70s New York|work=The Guardian|first=Gaby|last=Wood|date=January 3, 2010|access-date=May 1, 2010}} In the same year appeared White's best-known work, A Boy's Own Story — the first volume of an autobiographic-fiction series, continuing with The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997), describing stages in the life of a gay man from boyhood to middle age. Several characters in the latter novel are recognizably based on well-known people from White's New York-centered literary and artistic milieu.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/14/reviews/970914.14benfeyt.html|title=The Dead|work=The New York Times|first=Christopher|last=Benfey|date=September 14, 1997|access-date=March 12, 2013}}

From 1983 to 1990 White lived in France. He moved there initially for one year in 1983 via the Guggenheim Fellowship for writing he had received, but took such a liking to Paris "with its drizzle, as cool, grey and luxurious as chinchilla," (as he described it in his autobiographical novel The Farewell Symphony) that he stayed there for longer. French philosopher Michel Foucault invited him for dinner on several occasions, though he dismissed White's concerns about HIV/AIDS (Foucault would die of the illness shortly afterward). In 1984 in Paris, shortly after discovering he was HIV-positive, White joined the French HIV/AIDS organization, AIDES. During this period, he brought out his novel, Caracole (1985), which centers on heterosexual relationships.{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/edmund-white-3/caracole/|title=Caracole by Edmund White|date=September 18, 1985|access-date=September 28, 2022}} But he also maintained an interest in France and French literature, writing biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud. He published Genet: a biography (1993), Our Paris: sketches from memory (1995), Marcel Proust (1998), The Flaneur: a stroll through the paradoxes of Paris (2000) and Rimbaud (2008). He spent seven years writing the biography of Genet.

White came back to the United States in 1997. The Married Man, a novel published in 2000, is gay-themed and draws on White's life.{{cite news|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2000/05/23/amour-no-more/|title=Amour No More|work=The Village Voice|location=New York|first=Vince|last=Aletti|date=May 23, 2000|access-date=September 28, 2022}} Fanny: A Fiction (2003) is a historical novel about novelist Frances Trollope and social reformer Frances Wright in early 19th-century America.{{cite web|url=https://www.timteeman.com/2003/08/23/edmund-white-who-are-you-calling-a-trollope/|title=Edmund White: Who are you calling a Trollope?|website=Tim Teeman|date=August 23, 2003|access-date=August 30, 2020}} White's 2006 play Terre Haute (produced in New York City in 2009) portrays discussions that take place when a prisoner, based on terrorist bomber Timothy McVeigh, is visited by a writer based on Gore Vidal. (In real life McVeigh and Vidal corresponded but did not meet.){{cite news|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/san-francisco/article/Review-Whites-Terre-Haute-Haunts-20070411#|title=Review: White's 'Terre Haute' Haunts|publisher=BroadwayWorld|first=Eugene|last=Lovendusky|date=April 11, 2007|access-date=September 28, 2022}}

In 2005 White published his autobiography, My Lives — organized by theme rather than chronology – and in 2009 his memoir of New York life in the 1960s and 1970s, City Boy.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/my-lives-by-edmund-white-314709.html|title=My Lives by Edmund White|work=The Independent|location=London|first=Justin|last=Cartwight|date=September 25, 2005|access-date=September 28, 2022}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/16/city-boy-chaos-white-review|title=City Boy by Edmund White, and Chaos by Edmund White|work=The Guardian|first=Jay|last=Parini|date=January 16, 2010|access-date=September 28, 2022|quote=In My Lives: An Autobiography (2005), White dug into his primary material with clinical savagery, examining his life not in chronological terms but by subjects, such as 'My Shrinks', 'My Hustlers' and so on.}}

White taught at Brown University in the early 90s, and in 1999 became professor of creative writing in Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts.{{cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/~visarts/cwr/faculty/ewhite.html|title=The Program in Creative Writing, Princeton University|publisher=Princeton University|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305082049/http://www.princeton.edu/~visarts/cwr/faculty/ewhite.htm |archive-date=March 5, 2008}}

In 2025, well into his 80s, White published a sex memoir, The Loves of My Life, to acclaim.{{cite web | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781639733729 | title=The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White }}

White has received numerous awards and distinctions. Recipient of the inaugural Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 1989, he is also the namesake of the organization's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.{{cite web|url=http://www.publishingtriangle.org/awards.asp|title=Awards}}

In 2014, Edmund White was presented with the Bonham Centre Award from the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, for his contributions to the advancement and education of issues around sexual identification.{{cite web|url=http://pennantmediagroup.com/en/the-2014-bonham-centre-awards-gala-celebrates-power-of-the-word-on-april-24-2014-honouring-authors-and-writers-who-have-contributed-to-the-public-understanding-of-sexual-diversity-in-canada/|title=The 2014 Bonham Centre Awards Gala celebrates Power of the Word on April 24, 2014, honouring authors and writers who have contributed to the public understanding of sexual diversity in Canada|work=pennantmediagroup.com}}

• 1983: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts
• 1988: Lambda Literary Award, for The Beautiful Room Is Empty
• 1989: Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement{{cite web|url=https://publishingtriangle.org/awards/bill-whitehead-award/|title=The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement|publisher=Publishing Triangle|language=en-US|access-date=August 30, 2020}}
• 1992: Lambda Literary Award nomination, for Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction{{cite news|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/1992/07/lambda-literary-awards-1991/|title=4th Annual Lambda Literary Awards|date=July 13, 1992|access-date=September 28, 2022}}
• 1993: David R. Kessler Award in LGBTQ Studies, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies{{cite web|url=http://clags.org/articles/edmund-white-delivers-kessler-lecture/|title=Edmund White Delivers Kessler Lecture – CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies|language=en-US|access-date=May 15, 2022}}
• 1993: National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, for Genet
• 1993: {{lang|fr|Chevalier|italic=no}} (and later {{lang|fr|Officier|italic=no}}) de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres{{cite web|title=Person, Place, Thing|url=https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/maisonfrancaise/events/2018/ppt-edmund-white.html|access-date=August 30, 2020|website=New York University Arts and Letters}}
• 1994: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography nomination, for Genet: A Biography{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1994|title=1994 Pulitzer Prizes|access-date=September 28, 2022}}
• 1994: Lambda Literary Award, for Genet: A Biography{{cite web|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/1994/07/lambda-literary-awards-1993/|title=6th Annual Lambda Literary Awards|date=July 13, 1994|access-date=September 28, 2022}}
• 1996: Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters{{cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/09/25/edmund-white-receive-medal-distinguished-contribution-american-letters|title=Edmund White to receive Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters|publisher=Princeton University|language=en|access-date=August 30, 2020}}
• 1996: Lambda Literary Award nomination, for Our Paris{{cite news|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/07/14/lambda-literary-awards-1995/|title=8th Annual Lambda Literary Awards|date=July 14, 1996|first=Antonio Gonzalez|last=Cerna|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304081005/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/07/14/lambda-literary-awards-1995/|archive-date=March 4, 2012}}
• 1998: Lambda Literary Award nomination, for The Farewell Symphony{{cite web|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/1998/07/lambda-literary-awards-1997/|title=10th Annual Lambda Literary Awards|date=July 14, 1998|access-date=September 28, 2022}}
• 2001: Lambda Literary Award nomination, for The Married Man{{cite web|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2001/07/lambda-literary-awards-2000/|title=13th Annual Lambda Literary Awards|date=July 9, 2002|access-date=September 28, 2022}}
• 2002: Stonewall Book Award for Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/rt/rrt/award/stonewall/honored|title=Stonewall Book Awards List|publisher=American Library Association|date=September 9, 2009|access-date=November 18, 2020}}

• 2016–2018: New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit{{cite web|url=https://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/white_edmund16.html|title=Edmund White|publisher=Albany.edu|access-date=August 30, 2020}}
• 2018: PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction{{cite web|url=https://pen.org/2018-lifetime-career-achievement-honorees/|title=2018 PEN American Lifetime Career and Achievement Awards|publisher=PEN America|date=February 2017|access-date=February 7, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://pen.org/search/edmund%20white/|title=You searched for edmund white|publisher=PEN America|language=en|access-date=August 30, 2020}}
• 2019: National Book Foundation, Lifetime Achievement Award{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/nbf-to-present-lifetime-achievement-award-to-edmund-white/|title=NBF to Present Lifetime Achievement Award to Pioneering Writer Edmund White|publisher=National Book Foundation|date=September 2019|access-date=September 28, 2022}}

White is frequently noted as a major influence on gay American writers and literature. The Publishing Triangle named their award for Debut LGBT Fiction the Edmund White Award.

French writer Edouard Louis has said, "In France, White's books are not just considered important on a literary level — they're also a fundamental step in the construction of the gay self." Other writers of note who have cited his influence include Garth Greenwell, Garrard Conley, and Alexander Chee.

In his 2005 memoir My Lives, White cites Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and André Gide as influences, writing: "they convinced me that homosexuality was crucial to the development of the modern novel because it led to a resurrection of love, a profound skepticism about the naturalness of gender roles and a revival of the classical tradition of same-sex love that dominated Western poetry and prose until the birth of Christ".

His favorite living writers in the early 1970s were Vladimir Nabokov and Christopher Isherwood.

• Forgetting Elena (1973) {{ISBN|978-0345358622}}
• Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978) {{ISBN|9780312022631}}, {{OCLC|17953397}}
• A Boy's Own Story (1982) {{ISBN|9781509813865}}, {{OCLC|952160890}}
• Caracole (1985) {{ISBN|9780679764168}}, {{OCLC|490872532}}
• The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) {{ISBN|9780679755401}}
• Skinned Alive: Stories (1995) {{ISBN|9780679754756}}
• The Farewell Symphony (1997) {{ISBN|978-0701136215}}
• The Married Man (2000) {{ISBN|978-0679781448}}
• Fanny: A Fiction (2003) {{ISBN|978-0701169718}}
• Chaos: A Novella and Stories (2007) {{ISBN|9780786720057}}
• Hotel de Dream (2007) {{ISBN|978-0060852252}}
• Jack Holmes and His Friend (2012) {{ISBN|9781608197255}}, {{OCLC|877992500}}
• Our Young Man (2016) {{ISBN|9781408858967}}, {{OCLC|1002723765}}
• A Saint from Texas (2020) {{ISBN|9781635572551}}
• A Previous Life (2022) {{ISBN|9781526632241}}{{Cite web |title=A Previous Life |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/previous-life-9781526632241/ |access-date=January 26, 2022 |website=Bloomsbury |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126211355/https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/previous-life-9781526632241/ |url-status=dead }}
• The Humble Lover (2023) {{ISBN|9781639730889}}

• Terre Haute (2006) {{ISBN|978-0713687941}}

• The Joy of Gay Sex, with Charles Silverstein (1977) {{ISBN|9780517531587}}
• States of Desire (1980) {{ISBN|9780525480686}}
• The Burning Library: Writings on Art, Politics and Sexuality 1969–1993 (1994) {{ISBN|9780679434757}}, {{OCLC|33488913}}
• The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris (2000) {{ISBN|978-0747596875}}
• Arts and Letters (2004) {{ISBN|9781573442480}}, {{OCLC|69485728}}
• Sacred Monsters (2011) {{ISBN|9781936833115}}

• Genet: A Biography (1993) {{ISBN|9780099450078}}, {{OCLC|61423716}}
• Marcel Proust (1998) {{ISBN|9780143114987}}, {{OCLC|233547908}}
• Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel (2008) {{ISBN|9781843549710}}, {{OCLC|600721506}}

• Our Paris: Sketches from Memory (1995) {{ISBN|9780060085926}}
• My Lives (2005) {{ISBN|978-0066213972}}
• City Boy (2009) {{ISBN|9781608192342}}, {{OCLC|667235827}}
• Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris (2014) {{ISBN|9781620406335}}, {{OCLC|881092866}}
• The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading (2018) {{ISBN|9781635571172}}
• The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir (2025) ISBN 978-1639733729

• The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis, with Adam Mars-Jones (1988)
• In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) {{ISBN|978-0517881569}}
• The Art of the Story (2000) {{ISBN|978-0140296389}}
• A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play (2001) {{ISBN|9781889330518}}

• White, Edmund. "My Women. Learning how to love them", The New Yorker, June 13, 2005. Autobiographical article excerpted from My Lives.

White was present at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 when the Stonewall uprising began.{{cite news|url=https://lithub.com/edmund-white-on-stonewall-the-decisive-uprising-of-gay-liberation/|title=Edmund White on Stonewall, the 'Decisive Uprising' of Gay Liberation|publisher=Literary Hub|language=en-US|date=April 30, 2019|access-date=August 10, 2021}} He later wrote, "Ours may have been the first funny revolution."{{cite news |last=White |first=Edmund |date=June 19, 2019 |title=How Stonewall felt – to someone who was there |language=en |work=The Guardian |url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/commentisfree/2019/jun/19/white-men-were-first-to-benefit-from-gay-liberation-but-it-cant-end-there |access-date=August 10, 2021}} "When someone shouted 'Gay is good' in imitation of 'Black is beautiful', we all laughed... Then I caught myself foolishly imagining that gays might someday constitute a community rather than a diagnosis".{{Cite book |last=White |first=Edmund |title=The Beautiful Room is Empty |publisher=Vintage International |year=1988 |isbn=0-679-75540-3 |pages=226 |language=EN}}

White is gay and an atheist, though he was reared as a Christian Scientist. He discovered he was HIV-positive in 1985.{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/25/edmund.white.hiv.aids/index.html|title=HIV in the '80s: 'People didn't want to kiss you on the cheek'|publisher=CNN|first=Elizabeth|last=Landau|date=May 25, 2011|access-date=September 28, 2022|quote=White isn't a religious or 'New Age-y' person and considers himself an atheist.}} However, he is a "non-progressor", one of the small percentage of cases that have not led to AIDS. He is in a long-term open relationship with the American writer Michael Carroll, living with him from 1995 onward. They married in November 2013.{{cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/qa-edmund-white/|title=Q&A With Edmund White|work=The Nation|date=March 27, 2014|access-date=July 1, 2023}}

In June 2012, Carroll reported that White was making a "remarkable" recovery after suffering two strokes in previous months.{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/06/01/edmund-whites-partner-after-stroke-his-improvement-is-remarkable/|title=Edmund White's partner after stroke: 'his improvement is remarkable'|work=Washington Balde|first=Phil|last=Reece|date=June 1, 2012|access-date=May 16, 2013}} He has also had a heart attack.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/books/edmund-white-a-saint-from-texas.html|title=Living With Edmund White|work=The New York Times|date=July 24, 2020|access-date=September 28, 2022}}

In the 2023 interview with Colm Tóibín, White stated that he previously dated writer Tony Heilbut.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0trjAfLxY |title=Colm Tóibín (Il mago) in conversazione con Edmund White |date=June 1, 2023 |last=Santa Maddalena Foundation |access-date=May 30, 2024 |via=YouTube}}

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• Doten, Mark. [http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_02_010621.php "Interview with Edmund White"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305172953/http://bookslut.com/features/2007_02_010621.php |date=March 5, 2016 }}, Bookslut, February 2007.
• Fleming, Keith. "Uncle Ed". Granta 68 (Winter 1999). (A memoir by Edmund White's nephew who lived with White in the 1970s.)
• Morton, Paul. (April 6, 2006) [https://web.archive.org/web/20070313113533/http://www.econoculture.com/m/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=46 "Interview: Edmund White"], EconoCulture. Retrieved April 29, 2006.
• {{cite news |last1=Shewey |first1=Don |title=White's own story [interview] |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_1982-10-12_11_41/page/n64/mode/1up |access-date=September 26, 2024 |work=The Boston Phoenix |date=October 12, 1982}}
• Teeman, Tim. (July 29, 2006) [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23229-2284914,00.html "Inside a mind set to explode"]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, The Times (London). Retrieved January 9, 2007.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060613051729/http://edmundwhite.com/ Official website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080305082049/http://www.princeton.edu/~visarts/cwr/faculty/ewhite.html Official webpage at Princeton]
• Edmund White Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• {{cite journal| url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2488/the-art-of-fiction-no-105-edmund-white| title=Edmund White, The Art of Fiction No. 105| author= Jordan Elgrably| journal=The Paris Review| volume=Fall 1988| issue=108| date=Fall 1988 }}
• [http://www.untitledbooks.com/pages/interview/index.asp?InterviewID=63 Interview with Edmund White]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Untitled Books
• [http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/podcastedmund_white_a_mans_own/ of Edmund White's lecture "A Man's Own Story", delivered at the Key West Literary Seminar, January 2008]
• [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2007/2080151.htm Transcript] of interview with Ramona Koval on The Book Show, ABC Radio National November 7, 2007
• [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/3363 White article archive and bio] from The New York Review of Books
• [https://archive.today/20130104183222/http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/san-francisco-1972-excerpt-edmund-whites-memoir-city-boy/ An excerpt from White's memoir City Boy]

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