Who Was Edmund White? 5 Things to Know About the Late Novelist

Edmund White , the highly acclaimed author and major influencer on gay literature in America, died at the age of 85 on June 4, 2025, decades after his HIV diagnosis that never lead to AIDS.

Hollywood Life has compiled five facts about Edmund below.

Edmund White Wrote More Than 30 Books

The Ohio native authored more than 30 works of literature throughout his life — including fiction and nonfiction books. Among his most well-known were Forgetting Elena, A Boy’s Own Story, The Joy go Gay Sex, States of Desire, The Humble Lover and The Loves of My Life, the latter of which was published just months before Edmund’s death.

Edmund Was Married

From the early 1990s to the 2010s, Edmund and his husband, Michael Carroll, dated. During an interview with The Nation in 2014, the noveli