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- https://www.nationalbook.org/nbf-to-present-lifetime-achievement-award-to-edmund-white/
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/04/edmund-white-obituary
- https://lithub.com/edmund-white-on-stonewall-the-decisive-uprising-of-gay-liberation/
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/commentisfree/2019/jun/19/white-men-were-first-to-benefit-from-gay-liberation-but-it-cant-end-there
- https://apnews.com/article/edmund-white-dead-groundbreaking-gay-writer-1d6fb1a422a94dfe916bc53fb32cbf66
- https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/qa-edmund-white/ (Paywall)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/books/edmund-white-a-saint-from-texas.html (Paywall)
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/04/edmund-white-novelist-dies
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/t-magazine/edmund-white-queer-writing-book-influence.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20240626084505/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/10663337/Edmund-White-recalls-a-night-at-the-opera-with-Michel-Foucault-in-1981.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/25/archives/forgetting-elena-by-edmund-white-184-pp-new-york-random-house-595.html
