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...Edmund White was born in Cincinnati in 1940. After a childhood spent "painting and dancing and singing and generally being a nuisance," he decided to become a writer. His literary hero was Russian-born novelist Vladimir Nabokov, who, after reading White's first two books, proclaimed him his favorite American author. White's fiction, like Nabokov's, is marked by the combination of a baroque linguistic sensibility with a mordant picture of middle America. White says he has always written as "a representative member of my generation of gay men." That purpose has not limited his work, which ranges from...
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This fascinating figure is the subject of a meticulously researched and elegantly written biography by Edmund White. Despite Genet's mammoth size and its tendency to wander from its subject, the book is never boring. White simply writes too well to let our attention stray. His sidetrips are always rewarding and his sense of his subject's life and literature compelling throughout...
...change initiated by Liem--the new advisory committee--is a sham. The committee is stocked with Liem cronies: the aforementioned Vince Li, his wife Hetty and a number of natural scientists who Liem works with (including one whose dissertation he advised). Medical School Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Edmund C.C. Lin, a member of the Dunster Senior Common Room, is so concerned about the committee's composition that he plans to issue a written warning to two faculty members on the committee, "so they won't be taken in by the others...
Cover: Illustration for TIME by Edmund...