Edmund White

Author and literary critic

Edmund White is the author of many books including A Boys' Own Story and The Married Man. He has been made an officer in the French Order of Arts and Letters and last year received a literary prize from the Festival of Deauville. Ten of his books have been translated into French, including his magisterial biography of Jean Genet.

His most recent novel, Hotel De Dream, published by Bloomsbury in August 2007, and in paperback in September 2008, is a deftly layered novel of longing, both gay and straight. Edmund White is also the author of The Flaneur, published in paperback in March 2008, which explores parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many locals, luring the reader into the fascinating and seductive backstreets of his personal Paris. City Boy: My Life During the 1960s and 1970s is Edmund White's memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City's cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultous 1970s.

Jack Holmes and His Friend, published by Bloomsbury in January 2012, is moving, expertly-crafted novel from one of New York's most prolific and well-respected authors, Edmund White.