{"death_date": "2025-06-03", "name": "Edmund White", "bio": "Edmund Valentine White III is a patriarch of modern gay American literature, having contributed novels, memoirs, short stories, and essays, non-fiction as well as fiction, dealing with a range of social topics, frequently involving same-sex love. \r\n\r\nHis best-known works include *The Joy of Gay Sex* (with Charles Silverstein) and his autobiographic-fiction trilogy *A Boy's Own Story*, *The Beautiful Room Is Empty*, and *The Farewell Symphony*.", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "key": "/authors/OL32847A", "alternate_names": ["Edmund WHITE", "EDMUND WHITE"], "remote_ids": {"viaf": "102030733", "wikidata": "Q729117", "isni": "0000000121458238", "bookbrainz": "a1d0c720-672c-415c-9c42-5119c767f657", "musicbrainz": "aad96887-98a3-49f3-829b-f46232791427", "goodreads": "15975", "imdb": "nm0924764", "lc_naf": "n79082217", "opac_sbn": "CFIV064701", "gnd": "121588912"}, "photos": [15127895], "personal_name": "White, Edmund", "birth_date": "1940-01-13", "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-02T08:38:34.180576"}}