埃德蒙·瓦伦丁·怀特三世是美国小说家、回忆录家，也是一位文学和社会话题的散文家。他的大部分作品都是以同性爱情为主题。他的书包括同性恋的快乐，他的自传小说三部，一个男孩自己的故事，美丽的房间是空的，告别交响乐，以及他的JeanGenet传记。奖项：国家图书评论家圈奖、古根海姆奖学金、兰姆达文学奖。
The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.
六十年代的伟大胜利在于戏剧化地表现了五十年代看似正常的生活是多么的武断和随意。我们从枫木双人床上爬起来，落在60年代那巨大的软软的温水床上。
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
作为一个年轻作家，我的问题之一是我太像一个纽约人了，总是对“市场”持怀疑态度。我变得如此沮丧，以至于我决定写一些能让我自己高兴的东西——这成为我唯一的标准。就在那时，我写了《忘记埃琳娜》，这是我出版的第一本小说。
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
我直到三十三岁才出版任何东西，但我写了五部小说和六七部戏剧。我要指出的是，这些戏很糟糕。
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
应该有更多的补助金给20多岁和30出头的人。那是一个关键的年龄，尽管很难判断谁值得支持，谁不值得。回顾我自己的生活，我发现那是我最接近放弃小说家的时期，也是我最需要鼓励的时期。
When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.
当我的爱人休伯特·索林死于艾滋病时，他总是试图在我死后把我和旅馆里那个可爱的服务员撮合在一起。
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
我太拘谨，太文雅，太节制，太法国，不可能成为一个好的美国作家。
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
小说是一种不断发现自己想说什么，感受什么，意味着什么的过程，从这个意义上说，它是一种表演艺术，而传记则需要不同的技巧——研究和组织。
The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
第一个版本的漂亮房间是空的，是第一个mss。我曾经向纽约的编辑提交过。