Edmund White

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Edmund White was born in Cincinnati in 1940. His many novels include the autobiographical trilogy A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony; he has published biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud, as well as memoirs, short stories, and criticism; in 1977 he co-authored The Joy of Gay Sex. He is an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in New York City. 

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Nocturnes for the King of Naples
Nocturnes for the King of Naples
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Edmund White

Foreword by Garth Greenwell

The letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by “the paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times). 

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Garth Greenwell on Edmund White’s Brilliant Neglected Novel About the Search for a Lost Older Lover
Garth Greenwell on Edmund White’s Brilliant Neglected Novel About the Search for a Lost Older Lover

“Nocturnes for the King of Naples,” by Edmund White, stands outside current fashions, with its refined pleasures and its nuanced accounts of gay lives.