The late author’s long and prolific career was capped by a remarkable late-career run of four excellent books in the past five years.

Edmund White, who died on June 3, 2025 at the age of 85, was often called the Grandfather of gay literature. Equally at home writing novels, biographies, plays, memoirs, essays and various hybrids, he ...

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Sean Greer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, remembers the first time he read Edmund White. It was the summer of 1989, he was ...

Edmund White, a pioneer of contemporary gay literature, died this week at age 85. He left behind such widely read works as “A Boy’s Own Story” and “The Beautiful Room Is Empty” and a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Sean Greer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, remembers the first time he read Edmund White. It was the summer of 1989, he was beginning his second year at Brown ...

Edmund White, a pioneer of contemporary gay literature, died this week at age 85.

Edmund White, a pioneer of contemporary gay literature, died this week at age 85.