Genet
A Biography
A meticulously researched biography of Jean Genet, one of France's most notorious writers. Acclaimed novelist and essayist Edmund White illuminates Genet's experiences in the worlds of crime, homosexuality, politics, and high culture, and gives a compelling analysis of Genet's plays, novels, and essays. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.
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October 4, 1994Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical trilogy A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony, as well as Caracole, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, and Skinned Alive, a collection of short stories. He is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about gay America—States of Desire—and Our Paris. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and teaches at Princeton University. He lives in New York City.
The Stonewall Reader
Edited by The New York Public Library; Foreword by Edmund White; Edited with an Introduction by Jason Baumann
Marcel Proust
Edmund White
A Boy's Own Story
Edmund White
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot Introduction by Edmund White
The Married Man
Edmund White
Marcel Proust
Edmund White
The Farewell Symphony
Edmund White
Caracole
Edmund White
Skinned Alive
Edmund White
The Burning Library
Edmund White
Forgetting Elena
Edmund White
Genet
Edmund White
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Edmund White
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
Knife
Salman Rushdie
Jennie's Boy
Wayne Johnston
Burning Questions
Margaret Atwood
Paper Trails
Roy MacGregor
Mistakes to Run With
Yasuko Thanh
A Private Spy
John le Carré; edited by Tim Cornwell
The Bookseller of Florence
Ross King
Half-Bads in White Regalia
Cody Caetano
In a Time of Distance
Alexander McCall Smith
Through the Garden
Lorna Crozier
Letters of Note: New York City
Shaun Usher
Letters of Note: Sex
Shaun Usher
Burning Boy
Paul Auster
Pluck
Donna Morrissey
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
Knife
Salman Rushdie
The Road Years
Rick Mercer
Jennie's Boy
Wayne Johnston
All the Rage
Brad Fraser
The Heart of a Superfan
Nav Bhatia; with Tamara Baluja
Saga Boy
Antonio Michael Downing
A Little Bit Broken
Roz Weston
I Love Russia
Elena Kostyuchenko Translated by Bela Shayevich and Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse
Burning Questions
Margaret Atwood
Paper Trails
Roy MacGregor
Mistakes to Run With
Yasuko Thanh