Edmund White
Edmund White’s books include a trio of autobiographical novels, A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty and The Farewell Symphony, as well as biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud. He first appeared in Granta as a translator of Milan Kundera from the French, and is now a contributing editor to the magazine. In 2018, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Career Achievement in American Fiction.
Edmund White on Granta.com
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Edmund White | Interview
Edmund White & Patrick Ryan
‘Although I was trying for the big-city and suburban realism of Yates, I didn’t mind adding a bit of fairy dust in the dialogue.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The End?: Writers respond to John Barth
Various Contributors
'I suggest he put aside all his writing rituals and that he give away all his money – that way he might find his talent will be rebooted.'
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike
Edmund White
‘The freedom conferred by masks. Children and current wives cannot blame you for what your characters do and say.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 126
American Vogue
Edmund White
‘Mumbling is proof of artistic verisimilitude.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 126
Books I Read This Year
Various Contributors
A selection of Granta contributors discuss the books they read in 2012.