Caracole - Edmund White

Edmund White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940. His fiction includes the autobiographical trilogy A Boy 's Own Story , The Beautiful Room Is Empty , and The Farewell Symphony , as well as Caracole , Forgetting Elena , Nocturnes for the King of Naples , and Skinned Alive , a collection of short stories. He is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Jean Genet, a short study of Proust, a travel book about gay America-- States of Desire --and Our Paris . He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and teaches at Princeton University. He lives in New York City.