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Also Known As Edmund Valentine White III
Born January 13, 1940 (age 85) • Cincinnati • Ohio
Notable Works “A Saint from Texas” • “Caracole” • “Forgetting Elena” • “Hotel de Dream” • “Nocturnes for the King of Naples” • “Our Young Man” • “Skinned Alive” • “Terre Haute” • “The Beautiful Room Is Empty” • “The Farewell Symphony” • “The Joy of Gay Sex” • “The Married Man”

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