VISITING WRITER EDMUND WHITE...

...will be in residence at Temple from October 29-November 2

He will give a reading at Temple Center City on Thursday, November 1.

Born in Cincinatti in 1940, Edmund White grew up largely in Chicago. He has lived in New York, Key West, and Paris and is currently one of the best known and highly respected novelists and critics in the United States. White’s writing is frequently compared with that of Nabokov and Proust. He is best known for a trilogy of novels that leans heavily on his life as a gay man: A Boy’s Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room is Empty (1998), and The Farewell Symphony (1998). He has written the major biography of the French writer Jean Genet, and a brief biography of Marcel Proust. Other novels include Nocturne for the King of Naples (1978), Caracole (1985), The Married Man (2000), and Fanny: A Fiction (2003). He has published collections of short stories (Skinned Alive, Chaos) and essays (States of Desire, The Burning Library, and Arts and Letters). Forthcoming is a novel based on the life of Stephen Crane, Hotel de Dream. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has also received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill Foundations, as well as the Award for Literature from the American Academy. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.