Books by Edmund White

Jack Holmes and His Friend (2012)
Traces the decades-long friendship of Jack Holmes and Will Wright, which is marked by Jack's secret ...

Marcel Proust (1999)
Profiles Proust beyond his reclusive and obsessive persona, as a lonely young boy, darling of Parisi...

City Boy (2009)
A memoir based on the author's experiences as a cultural and intellectual insider in 1970s New York ...

Genet (1993)
Traces the life of controversial French writer Jean Genet, analyzes his novels and plays, and discus...

The Married Man (2001)
Romantic sparks fly when a lonely fiftysomething American furniture scholar falls in love with a mar...

Sacred Monsters (2012)
Edmund White is one of our most celebrated novelists. He is also a brilliant journalist and cultural...

The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1994)
A young gay man experiences the pain of growing out of adolescence and struggles to come to terms wi...