White, Edmund 1940-

The first men by Time-Life Books ( Book )
4 editions published between 1973 and 1978 in English and Russian and held by 1,791 libraries worldwide
Volume 3.

Genet : a biography by Edmund White ( Book )
18 editions published between 1993 and 2005 in 6 languages and held by 1,621 libraries worldwide
Traces the life of the controversial French writer, looks at his novels and plays, and discusses the major themes of his work

A boy's own story by Edmund White ( Book )
52 editions published between 1982 and 2009 in 12 languages and held by 1,559 libraries worldwide
"In this first volume of an autobiographical trilogy, a nameless narrator reminisces about his homosexual childhood and his conflicting emotions in coming of age during the 1950s. At fifteen years of age, the boy hopes ' that 'he is just passing through a homosexual "stage." At prep school he goes to a psychiatrist who pops pills and talks of his own problems -- and with no help from this man he begins slowly to see the real dimensions of his own life." Newsweek. "This first-person novel is 'written with the flourish of a master stylist....It is an endearing portrait of a child's longing to be charming, popular, powerful, and loved, and of his struggles with adults...[told with] sensitivity and elegance.'" Harpers.

Marcel Proust by Edmund White ( Book )
13 editions published between 1998 and 2003 in English and French and held by 1,406 libraries worldwide
"Considered the greatest - and most influential - writer of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust was also one of its most fascinating figures. In this portrait, Edmund White, author of an acclaimed biography of Jean Genet and the much admired novel A Boy's Own Story displays a rare understanding of this most complex man. A strange, reclusive genius who often lay in bed for days at a time in his cork-lined room, obsessively rewriting his masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past, Proust was at other times a tireless socialite, attending the grandest parties and dazzling the guests - especially the most important ones - with his vivacity and wit. White also depicts the yearning, lonely boy, the ambitious grasper after honors, and the miserably closeted homosexual, an aspect of his life that this book explores frankly and perceptively."--BOOK JACKET.

The married man by Edmund White ( Book )
21 editions published between 2000 and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 1,279 libraries worldwide
Austin, an American working in Paris, and Julien, a French architect, fall in love, but "inevitably, ... Julien's past catches up with them. With increasing desperation, in a quest to save health and happiness, they move from the shuttered squares of Venice to sun-drenched Key West, to Montreal in the snow and Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis."--Jacket.

The beautiful room is empty by Edmund White ( Book )
37 editions published between 1982 and 1996 in 8 languages and held by 1,251 libraries worldwide
"Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink--The beautiful room is empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age."--Cover.

Fanny : a fiction by Edmund White ( Book )
7 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 1,185 libraries worldwide
A fictional account based on the life of Fanny Wright is presented from the perspective of social critic and biographer Frances Trollope, who remembers young Wright's utopian idealism and move to mid-nineteenth century America.

The farewell symphony : a novel by Edmund White ( Book )
18 editions published between 1997 and 2004 in 4 languages and held by 1,167 libraries worldwide
A writer looks back on a decade of homosexual affairs on both sides of the Atlantic. In the process he describes the gay man's dilemma, on the one hand he wants the right to be different, on the other he wants to be accepted as normal.

The flaneur : a stroll through the paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White ( Book )
21 editions published between 2001 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 1,008 libraries worldwide
A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through a city without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the place and in covert search of adventure, aesthetic or erotic. The author, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Parisians.

Hotel de Dream : a New York novel by Edmund White ( Book )
9 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and French and held by 998 libraries worldwide
A tale inspired by the final days of literary master Stephen Crane is set in the underworld of turn-of-the-century New York and follows his death-bed dictation of his final novel, "The Painted Boy," while biding farewell to a long-time love.