Edmund White

Edmund White has written biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud. He has also written several novels, travel books, and a memoir. He teaches writing at Princeton and lives in New York City.

From the Review

July 2, 2009: Sensual in the South*

Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back by Reynolds Price

February 12, 2009: The Loves of the Falcon*

Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography by Jerry Rosco

The Grandmothers with an introduction by Sargent Bush Jr.

Goodbye, Wisconsin with an introduction by Jerry Roscoe and illustrations by Steve Chappell

Apartment in Athens with an introduction by David Leavitt

The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story with an introduction by Michael Cunningham

October 23, 2008: 'In Love with Duras' (letter)

June 26, 2008: In Love with Duras

Wartime Writings: 1943–1949 by Marguerite Duras, edited by Sophie Bogaert and Olivier Corpet, and translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

The War: A Memoir by Marguerite Duras,translated from the French by Barbara Bray

The North China Lover by Marguerite Duras, translated from the French by Leigh Hafrey

April 3, 2008: The Making of John Rechy*

About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir by John Rechy

March 6, 2008: Portrait of a Sissy*

October 11, 2007: Sons and Brothers*

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–1872 edited by Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias, with an introduction by Alfred Habegger

William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson

Henry James at Work by Theodora Bosanquet, edited and with notes by Lyall H. Powers

Henry James Goes to Paris by Peter Brooks

Letters of Marcel Proust translated from the French by Mina Curtiss, with an introduction by Adam Gopnik

June 14, 2007: Bunner & the Sisters (letter)

April 26, 2007: The House of Edith*

Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee

April 26, 1984: The Tragedy of Central Europe*

March 29, 1984: Nabokov's Passion*

From New York Review Books

Belchamber
Howard Sturgis was close friends with Henry James and Edith Wharton. "More Jamesian than the Master in hinting at melodrama yet keeping it at arm's length, Sturgis is an absolute modern in stirring up tensions on behalf of one of the quietest heroes in British fiction." —The New Republic