Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy's Own Story (available as a Modern Library hardcover classic) and The Married Man. He has written a long biography of Jean Genet and a short one of Proust. His most recent book is The Fl neur- A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris. White teaches writing at Princeton University.
<i>Daniel Deronda</i> is a startling and unexpected novel . . . it is a cosmic myth, a world history, and a morality play. --<b>A. S. Byatt</b>