His works are reviewed not only in gay and lesbian publications but in such mainstream publications as
The New York Times,
The Chicago Tribune,
The Nation, and
The New Republic.
White's many honors include an American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters award for fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship, both in 1983. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Genet: A Biography in 1993, and the French government awarded him the Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et lettres the same year. White was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997.
Edmund Valentine White III was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 13 January 1940, to Delilah Teddlie White, a child psychologist, and Edmund Valentine White II, a chemical engineer. His parents divorced when he was seven, and White, his mother, and his sister, the future psychotherapist Margaret Fleming, moved to Evanston, Illinois. Fleming told Leonard Schulman, who wrote a profile of White for Time magazine (1990), that the divorce had a profound effect on the future writer.
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