Edmund White (b. 1940), a celebrated novelist, essayist, and cultural critic, has written biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust, and Arthur Rimbaud, several volumes of memoirs, and numerous novels, including A Boy’s Own Story (1982) and Hotel de Dream (2007). The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, research files, biographical material, financial papers, photographs, slides, audiovisual material, and ephemera.