About the Author

Edmund White is the author of 20 books including A Boy's Own Story, The Farewell Symphony and the National Book Critics Circle Award winning Genet: a Biography. He is also a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review and Vanity Fair. He directs the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives in New York City.

Reviews

"White has a novelist's eye for the telling detail or the remarkable place." - New York Times "As a writer, White possesses the rare combination of a poetic sense of language and an ironic sense of humour." - Newsweek "From the first few pages, I was ready to give myself over to his wanderings, just to find out where he would go next...Edmund White tells such a good story that I'm ready to listen to anything he wants to talk about." - New York Times"