The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798260200162)

Edmund White (1940-2025) authored more than thirty works of fiction, memoir, and nonfiction, including the novels A Boy's Own Story, Our Young Man, and The Humble Lover; the memoirs City Boy, Inside a Pearl, and The Unpunished Vice; literary biographies Genet and Rimbaud; and many more. His last work, the sexual autobiography The Loves of My Life, was a New York Times Editors' Choice. He received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.

Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. A contributing editor at The New Republic and an editor at large at VQR, his essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, The Sewanee Review, and Best American Essays. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.