Author of The Joy of Gay Sex, Edmund White, dies aged 85

Renowned gay novelist Edmund White has died at the age of 85.

The news was confirmed to The Guardian by the author’s agent, Bill Clegg, on Wednesday morning (4 June), who said the novelist died the previous evening while waiting for an ambulance, having experienced stomach issues.

White is survived by his husband and partner of 30 years, the writer Michael Carroll.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940, White studied Chinese at the University of Michigan, having turned down an offer from Harvard, graduating in 1962. Against the wishes of his therapist, who it appears practiced some form of conversion therapy, White moved to New York to be with a male lover and was a witness to the Stonewall riots in 1969.

His first novel, Forgetting Elena,

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