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Edmund White

EDMUND WHITE

  (1940 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  

Edmund White is the author of twenty books including novels, short stories, essays, travel books and biographies. His magisterial biography of Jean Genet won the National Book Critics' Circle Award and his short biography of Marcel Proust was a best seller. His trilogy of autobiographical novels - A Boy's Own Story, the Beautiful Room is Empty and the Farewell Symphony - have become classics of contemporary gay Literature. White has been called America's Marcel Proust and Le Monde compared him to Henry James. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an officer in the French Order of Arts and Letters. He lived in Paris for 16 years in the 1980s and 90s and his books - Our Paris and the Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris -have won him a wide popular audience. He teaches creative writing at Princeton and lives in New York. His memoir, My Lives, was published last year to much acclaim. Terre Haute was developed at the Sundance Festival in Utah. In September 2007, Bloomsbury is publishing a new novel, Hotel de Dream.

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below is a list of Edmund White's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Blueboy In Black, The         Granary, The         Terre Haute         Trios

Blueboy In Black, The

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Joan is the black maid for James and Isabel Lawland. Isabel is a snob and bullies the servants. She wants James a successful crime writer to give up crime and write the great American novel. Joan contrives to take Isabel's place. She gets her boyfriend Robert who is the gardener to rape James. Isabel walks in and thinks they are lovers. Now divorced James marries Joan. Joan persuades him that he is a great writer and to write his novel. She betrays James who becomes a helpless drunk. James begins to think that the only one who has ever shown him any affection is Robert. He approaches Robert to see if they can become lovers but Robert rejects him

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1st Produced:
Masque Theater, New York City     1963

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Gay full length

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Granary, The

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Cork, Ireland     1995

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Terre Haute

Terre Haute
Shortly before his execution for the Oklahoma bombing,Timothy McVeigh was in correspondence with the celebrated American writet; Gore Vidal. From death row in Terre Haute prison, the award-winning novelist, Edmund White, imagines what would have happened had they ever met face to face.This is a powerful portrait of two fundamentally different men.As the clock ticks on death row, the bond between them grows. Edmund White is the author of the classic novel of gay American life, A Boy's Own Story.

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Methuen Drama    978-0573696534

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Trios

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Haymarket Studio, Leicester     1990

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