{"id":1343,"date":"2016-02-22T16:47:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/writer-edmund-white-to-give-reading\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:02:07","slug":"writer-edmund-white-to-give-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/writer-edmund-white-to-give-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer Edmund White to give reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6889\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/edmund-white.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6889\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6889 lazyload\" title=\"edmund-white\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/edmund-white.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"308\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 220px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 220\/308;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrated author Edmund White is teaching writing at Furman this spring.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014Edmund White, one of America\u2019s most gifted and celebrated writers, will give a public reading on the Furman University campus Tuesday, May 28 at 7 p.m. in Patrick Lecture Hall of the Townes Science Center.<\/p>\n<p>The reading is free, and a reception with the author will follow.<\/p>\n<p>White, the nation\u2019s best-known gay novelist, is on the Furman campus this spring to teach in the English Department\u2019s \u201cWriting with Writers\u201d course as part of the university\u2019s three-week May Experience semester.<\/p>\n<p>A prolific writer of plays, cultural criticism, short stories and novels, White is most famous for his trilogy of autobiographical fiction about growing up gay in America\u2014<em>A Boy\u2019s Own Story<\/em>, <em>The Beautiful Room is Empty<\/em>, and <em>The Farewell Symphony<\/em>. \u00a0He has been interviewed in the Paris Review for its \u201cArt of Fiction\u201d series, and regularly writes reviews and cultural commentaries for <em>The New York Times<\/em> and the <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em> in London.<\/p>\n<p>White is also the author of a biography of Jean Genet, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1994, as well as a study of Marcel Proust, and a memoir, <em>My Lives<\/em>.\u00a0 Having lived in Paris for many years, he now resides in New York and teaches at Princeton University.<\/p>\n<p>Furman English professor Nick Radel just recently published <em>Understanding Edmund White<\/em>, the first book-length critical study of the author.\u00a0 The book is published by the University of South Carolina Press and is part of the Understanding American Literature Series.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about White\u2019s reading at Furman, contact Dr. Radel at 864-294-2795 or <a href=\"mailto:nick.radel@furman.edu\">nick.radel@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmund White, one of America\u2019s most gifted and celebrated writers, will give a public reading on the Furman campus Tuesday, May 28 at 7 p.m. in Patrick Lecture Hall of the Townes Science Center. The reading is free, and a reception with the author will follow. White, the nation\u2019s best-known gay novelist, is on campus this spring to teach in the English Department\u2019s \u201cWriting with Writers\u201d course as part of the May Experience semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,45,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-art","category-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}