Edmund White

Edmund Valentine White III born January 13 1940 is an American novelist memoirist and an essayist on literary and social topics Much of his writing is on the theme of samesex love His books include The Joy of Gay Sex written with Charles Silverstein 1977 his trilogy of semiautobiographic novels A Boys Own Story 1982 The Beautiful Room Is Empty 1988 and The Farewell Symphony 1997 and his biography of Jean Genet Source Wikipedia