Edmund White

Edmund White is the author of many books, including The Beautiful Room is Empty: A Novel, A Boy's Own Story: A Novel, The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris, The Farewell Symphony, City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s, and Genet: A Biography.  He was the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Genet, in addition to receiving two fellowships from the Ingram  Merrill Foundation and a Guggenheim fellowship.  In 2001, he received the Ferro-Grumley Award from the Publishing Triangle for The Married Man.