Edmund White's novels include
Fanny: A Fiction,
A Boy's Own Story,
The Farewell Symphony, and
A Married Man. He is also the author of a biography of Jean Genet, a study of Marcel Proust,
The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris, the memoir
My Lives, and
Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel. He
teaches at Princeton University.
From his Q & A with Anna Metcalfe of the
Financial Times:
What was the last book you couldn’t finish?
Don DeLillo’s Underworld.
* * *
Who are your literary influences?
Proust, Isherwood and Nabokov.
* * *
What book changed your life?
I was a teenager when I read Wuthering Heights, while I was in my school infirmary with a fever. It gave me a sense of the dark glamour of literature.
Read
the complete interview.
Read
an excerpt from White's Hotel de Dream, and learn
more about the novel at the publisher's website.
The Page 99 Test: Hotel de Dream.
--Marshal Zeringue
