Edmund White died: American novelist and writer, Edmund White died on 3 June 2025 at the age of 85 on Tuesday evening due to stomach illness.His death confirmed by confirmed by his agent, Bill Clegg, on Wednesday.
He was also known as memoirist, playwright, biographer, and essayist. He was known for Forgetting Elena (1973), A Boy’s Own Story (1982), Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978),
The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), States of Desire (1980), and The Farewell Symphony (1997).
He received various awards including Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983, National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 1993, Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1993 and Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2018.
His childhood spent in Evanston, Illinois where he completed his schooling Cranbrook School in Michigan as a boy. He attended at the University of Michigan.
He also worked as freelancer for Newsweek and also worked seven years as a staffer at Time-Life Books. He worked as editor for the Saturday Review. He wrote novel Forgetting Elena (1973).
His popular books are A Boy’s Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), The Farewell Symphony (1997), City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s (2009), Our Young Man (2016) and Genet: A Biography (1993).
He was relationship with Michael Carroll who is also a American writer. They married in 2013.
