Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Writer Edmund White Dies at 85


Doing an emergency blog post on my phone to report that Brad Gooch just shared the news that the writer Edmund White has died. 

Brad writes: 
Dear Ed White (1940-2025) longtime friend and hilarious, perennial lunch buddy. You were like no one else in my life or in all of our literatures. Another world has cratered. #edmundwhite
Much more will be said and written about this influential and prolific wordsmith -- whose debut novel, "Forgetting Elsa," came out in 1973 and whose most recent work, "The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir," came out earlier this year. But for now I’ll just say: Rest in peace, you dirty old man. You will be remembered.

UPDATE: The appreciations are pouring in BELOW.

2 comments:

Jack said...

Aw, sad to hear.

Jaradon said...

Influential gay author- may he rest in peace