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| Born | Edmund Valentine White III January 13, 1940 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | University of Michigan Cranbrook School |
| Period | 1970s–present |
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| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography 1993 Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1993 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction 2018 |
| Spouse | Michael Carroll |
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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 Chevalier (and later Officier) de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1993.