Edmund White is guest speaker at Friends of the Library series

Monday, January 22, the Key West Friends of the Library will welcome acclaimed author and critic, Edmund White, to the podium at the Key West Theater, 512 Eaton St. Admission is free. His talk begins promptly at 6:00 p.m. Seating starts at 5:30 on a first come first served basis.

Edmund White has authored dozens of books including fiction, memoir, biography, drama, and essays. He has gained notoriety for his biographies and autobiographical works Additionally, White’s many essays have appeared in major publications. Thematically, his work centers on the gay experience in America and France from the 1950s to the present.. His most recent novel, Our Young Man, was published by Bloomsbury in 2016.

In addition to his voice in America, White has been an activist for change in the gay community in many ways, including through work with the AIDS organization in France, and as part of initiating the Gay Men’s Health Crisis group in 1982.

White was born in Cincinnati, and grew up in Chicago; he attended the University of Michigan. Mr. White has taught creative writing at Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Yale, Brown, and, most recently, Princeton. He lives in New York City and has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 1988 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction for The Beautiful Room is Empty, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1993 for Genet: A Biography, and the 2001 Triangle Award in fiction for The Married Man.

For more information, go to http://friendsofthekeywestlibrary.org and click on lecture series.

[livemarket market_name="KONK Life LiveMarket" limit=3 category=“” show_signup=0 show_more=0]