![]() White has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. But White is best known for his trilogy of autobiographical novels: A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony. ![]() White’s biographies chronicle the lives of Marcel Proust, Arthur Rimbaud, and Genet the latter book won the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was followed in 1977 by the groundbreaking handbook The Joy of Gay Sex. His first book was the 1973 novel Forgetting Elena. In a career spanning nearly half a century, the “widely acclaimed chronicler of gay American life and culture” has written twenty-nine books, including novels, memoirs, biographies, travelogues, and works of cultural criticism. ![]() Revolutionary and vital-those were the words the National Book Foundation used to describe Edmund White when he received the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. ![]()
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