published his autobiography, My Lives — organised by theme rather than chronology — and in 2009 his memoir of New York life in the 1960s and 1970s, City Boy. White himself was the subject of a biography by Stephen Barber. His response to the book was that Barber "had a very romantic vision of me. It was very flattering. He painted me as a brooding figure. I see myself as much more self-mocking and satirical. I just skimmed that biography. As Genet put it, I didn't want to end up resembling myself". From 1999 onwards, White became professor of creative writing in Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts. Awards and honors White has received numerous awards and distinctions. Recipient of the inaugural Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 1989, he is also the namesake of the organization's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. In 2014, Edmund White was presented with the Bonham Centre Award from the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, for his contributions to the advancement and education of issues around sexual identification. 1983: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts 1988: Lambda Literary Award, for The Beautiful Room Is Empty 1989: Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement 1992: Lambda Literary Award nomination, for Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction 1993: David R. Kessler Award in LGBTQ Studies, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies 1993: National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, for Genet 1993: (and later ) de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1994: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography nomination, for Genet: A Biography 1994: Lambda Literary Award, for Genet: A Biography 1996: Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters 1996: Lambda Literary Award nomination, for Our Paris 1998: Lambda Literary Award nomination, for The Farewell Symphony 2001: Lambda Literary Award nomination, for The Married Man 2002: Stonewall Book Award for Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS 2016–2018: New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit 2018: PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction 2019: National Book Foundation, Lifetime Achievement Award Works Fiction Forgetting Elena (1973) Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978) , A Boy's Own Story (1982) , Caracole (1985) , The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) Skinned Alive: Stories (1995) The Farewell Symphony (1997) The Married Man (2000) Fanny: A Fiction (2003) Chaos: A Novella and Stories (2007) Hotel de