{"id":4334,"date":"2019-09-14T14:21:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2019-09-14T14:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T18:21:17","slug":"the-national-book-foundation-will-award-edmund-white-with-the-2019-medal-for-distinguished-contribution-to-american-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/4334","title":{"rendered":"The National Book Foundation will award Edmund White with the 2019 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best known for his portrayals of gay American life in both fiction and nonfiction, White?s body of work spans subject and genre, including a biography of French writer Jean Genet, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award; a trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy?s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony; pioneering works of nonfiction like The Joy of Gay Sex, the travel memoir States of Desire, and the National Book Critics Circle Award?nominated City Boy; and many other titles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/nbf-to-present-lifetime-achievement-award-to-edmund-white\/\">https:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/nbf-to-present-lifetime-achievement-award-to-edmund-white\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best known for his portrayals of gay American life in both fiction and nonfiction, White?s body of work spans subject and genre, including a biography of French writer Jean Genet, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award; a trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy?s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":4336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-glbt-news","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}