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Edmund White’s writing shone a light in dark times

Brief letters: Aids crisis | Compulsory reading | Defence spending | Perfectly clear | Re-double

The Guardian - UK

Edmund White was my friend – I know first-hand why his writing meant so much to queer readers

When I was 19 years old, I visited New York for ten days on the way to London. I was flying from New Zealand, that small island nation in the South Pacific where all sexual acts between men were still illegal. My body was naive and innocent, but my mind…

The Conversation

The Guardian view on coming-out tales: from A Boy’s Own Story to What It Feels Like for a Girl

Editorial: Groundbreaking memoirs continue to shape the history of LGBTQ+ rights

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How groundbreaking gay author Edmund White paved the way for other writers

Edmund White, a pioneer of contemporary gay literature, died this week at age 85

The Independent UK

Where to start with: Edmund White

After the news of White’s death, here is a guide to a foundational writer of gay lives and elder statesman of American queer literary fiction

The Guardian - UK

Edmund White obituary

One of the leading gay writers of his generation known for his bestseller A Boy’s Own Story and his biography of Jean Genet

The Guardian - UK

Edmund White remembered: ‘He was the patron saint of queer literature’

Colm Tóibín, Alan Hollinghurst, Adam Mars-Jones and more recall the high style and libidinous freedom of a writer who ‘was not a gateway to gay literature but a main destination’

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Edmund White, a groundbreaking gay author, dies at 85

Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, memoirs and novels, has died

The Independent UK

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has died

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: Trump’s ‘coalition of creeps’, Brooke Shields and the death of handwriting

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Claire Keenan

The Guardian - AU

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White review – a glorious celebration of queer love

In frank and hilarious style, the author recounts the significant encounters that helped make him who he is

The Guardian - UK

Edmund White on lust, love and literature: ‘I’d had sex with 3,000 men. A peer asked: “Why so few?”’

The American author’s fifth memoir is all about sex - with alfresco frolics in London and encounters in a bullring among the tamer anecdotes. At 85, he explains why he thought the book would never be published

The Guardian - UK

The Loves of My Life by Edmund White – sex on the brain… and in the bathhouse

The American author’s anthology of his many physical encounters is a spiritual quest as much as a sensual one

The Guardian - UK

A Previous Life by Edmund White review – salacious confessions

A couple share their sexual histories in this elegantly filthy report from the frontiers of desire

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What We’re Reading: Edmund White is the godfather of queer lit

CHICAGO — About a week after Edmund White turned 82, we spoke on the phone.

The Guardian - UK

Edmund White: ‘My earliest reading memory is a lady toad with a nasty temper’

The author on discovering Death in Venice, being snobbish about Proust, and the dark side of Waugh

Tribune News Service

Review: 'A Previous Life,' by Edmund White

FICTION: A couple's twin memoirs generate more heat than light.

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