Edmund White, "My Women," The New Yorker (June 6, 2005).
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In my middle-class teen-age world, the whole apparatus of going steady, exchanging ID bracelets, smooching at dances, fighting, breaking up, submitting to the arbitration of friends — that was the point, the public drama.
— Edmund White on Arbitration
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About Edmund White
Edmund White (January 13, 1940 – June 3, 2025) was an American novelist, memoirist, and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing was on the theme of same-sex love. Probably his best-known books are The Joy of Gay Sex (1977) (written with Charles Silverstein) and his trio of autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997).
About Edmund White
Edmund White (January 13, 1940 – June 3, 2025) was an American novelist, memoirist, and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing was on the theme of same-sex love. Probably his best-known books are The Joy of Gay Sex (1977) (written with Charles Silverstein) and his trio of autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997).
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