Author of dozens of novels, short stories, articles and rehearsals, Edmund White died at the age of 85 “at his home in New York of natural causes.”
American writer Edmund White, author of “The Private Life of a Boy,” died on Tuesday at the age of 85 in New York, his agent Bill Clegg announced on Wednesday in the newspaper The Washington Post.
“Unfortunately, I can confirm that ed [Edmund White] He died last night at his home in New York of natural causes, “said his agent Bill Clegg.
Writer, playwright, essayist acclaimed by his novels ‘semiautobiographic’ as “the private life of a boy” and “Symphony to the farewell”, Edmund White It is recognized by the great influence on LGBTQ+literature, In particular by the pioneering of the work, in the late 1970s.
Edmund White was born on January 13, 1940, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of dozens of novels, short stories, articles and rehearsals.
From the beginning, Homosexuality was the heart of your writingfrom a personal, social and political perspective.
White stated right away with the first work, “Forget Elena”, published in 1973, which followed the one that was defined as a work “highly explicit”, A kind of “Kama Sutra” of LGBT+ literature in the United States, “The Joy of Gay Sex” (1977), with illustrations by Charles Silverstein.
By the time of the years, works such as “Nocturnes for the King of Naples” (1978), “A Boy’s Own Story” (1982), with its autobiographical character, “Caracole” (1985), “Skinned Alive” (1995), “The Farewell Symphony” (1997) and “The Married Man” (2000), confirmed the initial success and affirmed the name Edmund White in English Language lyrics.
The author, who lived in Paris for almost 15 years, in the 1980s-1990, He is also the author of biographies dedicated to Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud.
Seropositive since 1985, survived two strokes and a heart attack in the 2010continuing to write. From recent years there are books such as “Our Young Man” (2016), “A Saint from Texas” (2020), “A PREVIOUS LIFE” (2022) and “The Humble Love” (2023).
The final work, “The Love of My Life”, date this year, having been announced with a positive criticism by Publishers Weekly.
Quoted today by the British newspaper The Guardian, Edmund White said about the writers who preceded him: “Gore Vidal’s previous gay fiction was written for heterosexual readers. He had a gay audience in mind, and that made all the difference.”
White taught at Brown and Princeton universities in the United States.
“There was no one like Edmund White!“
American writer Joyce Carol Oates, quoted by the agency France Presse (AFP), considered “very sad” The news of the writer’s death: “There was no one like Edmund White! An impressive style versatility, bold and innovative themes, a dark humor, a friend.”
French novelist Edouard Louis, also quoted by AFP, considered Edmund White a “amazing friend”: “Loyal, generous, beautiful and attentive. He has always supported and encouraged young writers like no one else.”
From Edmund White are published in Portugal the books “The Private Life of a Boy”, “Symphony to the Farewell”, “Living Shorten”, “The Married Man” and “A beautiful empty room”, all published by Don Quixote.
