Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty,ย The Farewell Symphony, and Our Young Man. His nonfiction includes City Boy,ย Inside a Pearl,ย The Unpunished Vice, and other memoirs; The Flรขneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. He was named the 2018 winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and received the 2019 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.