Marcel Proust
A Life
The celebrated novelist and influential cultural critic's classic biography of one of history's most important writers, Marcel Proust
If there is anyone worthy of producing an intimate biography of the enigmatic genius behind Remembrance of Things Past, it is Edmund White, himself an award- winning writer for whom Marcel Proust has long been an obsession. White introduces us not only to the recluse endlessly rewriting his one massive work through the night, but also the darling of Parisian salons, the grasper after honors, and the closeted homosexual-a subject this book is the first to explore openly. From the frothiest gossip to the deepest angst, here is a moving portrait to be treasured by anyone looking for an introduction to this literary…
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February 24, 2009Edmund 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.
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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
Branch Rickey
Jimmy Breslin
Dante
R. W. B. Lewis
Marcel Proust
Edmund White
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Keneally
Martin Luther
Martin E. Marty
Joan of Arc
Mary Gordon
Frank Lloyd Wright
Ada Louise Huxtable
Pope John XXIII
Thomas Cahill
Winston Churchill
John Keegan
Virginia Woolf
Nigel Nicolson
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
The Weight of Freedom
Nate Leipciger
Stronger Together
Andy Reti and Ibolya Grossman
Spare
Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
Never Far Apart
Kitty Salsberg and Ellen Foster
Two Roads Home
Daniel Finkelstein
Where Courage Lives
Muguette Myers
Paris '44
Patrick Bishop
The Hidden Package
Claire Baum
Humanly Possible
Sarah Bakewell
Out of the Darkness
Frank Trentmann
Kiss the Red Stairs
Marsha Lederman
The Palace Papers
Tina Brown
Flights of Spirit
Elly Gotz
A Cry in Unison
Judy Cohen
The Position of Spoons
Deborah Levy
Salvage
Dionne Brand
Some of My Best Friends
Tajja Isen
Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami
Burning Questions
Margaret Atwood
A Guest at the Feast
Colm Tóibín
Languages of Truth
Salman Rushdie
Real Estate
Deborah Levy
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith
Bread Out of Stone
Dionne Brand
Sonnet's Shakespeare
Sonnet L'Abbé
My Seditious Heart
Arundhati Roy
See What Can Be Done
Lorrie Moore