 White Dog was first released as an English short story that appeared in Life magazine in 1968 . It was published as a full novel in 1970 in two languages and two countries . A French @-@ language version was published in France under the title Chien Blanc by Éditions Gallimard ( ISBN 207027022X ) in April 1970 . Gary , who was multi @-@ lingual , also wrote an English version , which was published by New American Library in 1970 under its Signet label . 
 White Dog was first released as an English short story <a href='null_relcl' title='1'><mark>that</mark></a>appeared in Life magazine in 1968 . It was published as a full novel in 1970 in two languages and two countries . A French @-@ language version was published in France under the title Chien Blanc by Éditions Gallimard ( ISBN 207027022X ) in April 1970 . Gary , <a href='null_relcl' title='2'><mark>who</mark></a>was multi @-@ lingual , also wrote an English version , which was published by New American Library in 1970 under its Signet label . 
White Dog was first released as an English short story appeared in Life magazine in 1968 . It was published as a full novel in 1970 in two languages and two countries . A French @-@ language version was published in France under the title Chien Blanc by Éditions Gallimard ( ISBN 207027022X ) in April 1970 . Gary , was multi @-@ lingual , also wrote an English version , which was published by New American Library in 1970 under its Signet label .