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Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, and, most recently, Our Young Man. His nonfiction includes City Boy, Inside a Pearl, and other memoirs; The Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. White lives in New York.
Edmund White is one of the best writers of my generation; he's certainly the contemporary American writer I reread more than any other, and the one whose next book I look forward to reading most -- John Irving White's prose is as fresh as a series of slaps to the face. * New York Times Book Review on OUR YOUNG MAN * He never descends to savage satire. This open-heartedness, an essential White quality, makes his writing sparkle with generosity ... Every detail is alive and gleaming ... It is also a book that floats above things, so light is its touch, so playful and joyous its execution ... It is shameful, though, that we haven't managed to free White from the initially groundbreaking but now enfettering label of gay novelist . It has blinded us to the essential allusiveness, wit and sprezzatura of his work, its conversations with other books, its effortless ability to say profound things in unsententious and gossamer-light ways -- praise for 'Our Young Man', Neel Mukherjee * Guardian * White has proven himself again and again to be one of the finest storytellers of his generation . . . an author who entices his readers with plots that come honey-drizzled in language to which the rest of us can only aspire. . . . Sleek, witty, a bit raunchy, and fully enticing and entertaining. * New York Journal of Books on OUR YOUNG MAN * Edmund White tells such a good story that I'm ready to to listen to anything he wants to talk about -- praise for 'The Flaneur' * New York Times *
