Overview
- His death on June 3 at his Manhattan home was confirmed by agent Bill Clegg as due to natural causes
- White authored over thirty books, including seminal works like Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes pour le roi de Naples and A Boy’s Own Story
- He lived with HIV since 1985 and survived two strokes and a heart attack in the 2010s
- His contributions earned him the National Book Critics Circle Award and membership in both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow writers Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Rudnick and Édouard Louis lauded his lasting influence and mentorship within the LGBT+ literary community