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Edmund White is the author of many critically acclaimed books, the most recent being The Flaneur, the first in 'The Writer and the City' series. He was made an officer in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and won a literary prize from the Festival of Deauville.
Edmund White was born in Ohio in 1940 and went to the University of Michigan, where he majored in Chinese. He has lived in New York, Rome and France. He has worked for Time-Life Books, Horizon and the Saturday Review. He founded the Violet Quill group with six other writers in New York. He teaches at Princeton University
Edmund White lives in New York City. |