# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edmund-white
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:49:16.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edmund-white"
name: "Edmund White"
slug: "edmund-white"
description: "Edmund Valentine White III was an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and essayist. A pioneering figure in LGBTQ and especially gay literature after the Stonewall riots, he wrote with rare candor about gay identity, relationships, and sex. His work emerged as part of an increasingly solidified and visible LGBTQ community, helping to reshape public narratives at a time when coming out was still a dangerous, even radical act. His writing, noted for intimate depth and literary elegance, includes the semi-autobiographical trilogy A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988), and The Farewell Symphony (1997). He also co-authored The Joy of Gay Sex (1977), promoting sex-positive discourse."
tagline: "American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edmund_White_BBF_2011_Shankbone.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-01-13"
deathDate: "2025-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.798278525711763
  historical:           23.225072
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924764/"
    handle:    "nm0924764"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump