Author

Edmund White

Edmund White’s critically acclaimed fiction has earned him a number of honors and awards during his career. He has twice received the Hopwood Awards (1961 and 1962), Ingram Merrill grants (1973 and 1978), was a Guggenheim fellow in 1983, and in that same year received the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction. His major works include five novels, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, A Boy’s Own Story, Caracole, and The Beautiful Room is Empty as well as a short story collection, The Darker Proof, a play, “The Blue Boy in Black,” and the nonfiction Argument for a Myth.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Interviews

Jun 01 1990

An Interview with Edmund White

“Most writers write too much, they work too much, they live too little, and they anguish too much.”

“Writing about a culture, where people no longer troubled themselves about what was good, but only about what was beautiful, fascinated me.”