Best-Kept Boy in the World (22 page)

26. Ibid.

27. Wishart, p. 53.

28. Shelden, p. 181.

29. Ibid.

30. Ibid.

31. Ibid.

32. Ibid., p. 53.

33. Ibid., p. 54.

34. Ibid., p. 54.

35. Ibid., p. 57.

36. Ibid., p. 57.

37. Ibid., p. 56.

38. Ibid.

39. Ibid., p. 57.

40. Ibid., p. 60.

41. Ibid., p. 60.

42. Ibid., p. 54.

43. Ibid., p. 54

44. Lewis, p. 405.

45. Wishart, p. 60.

CHAPTER TWO

1. Phelps and Rosco,
   Continual Lessons
   , p.
   59.
   

2. Clarke,
   Capote
   , p. 172.
   

3. Plimpton,
   Truman Capote
   , p. 87.
   

CHAPTER THREE

1. Pryce-Jones,
   The Bonus of Laughter
   , p.
   31.
   

2. Price-Jones,
Cyril Connolly
, p. 136.

3. Murray,
Aldous Huxley
, p. 91.

4. Bell,
The Diary of Virginia Woolf
, pp.
78-79.

5. Pryce-Jones,
The Bonus of Laughter
, p.
31.

6. Ibid.

7. Graves and Hodge,
The Long Weekend
, p.
114.

8. Lancaster,
Brian Howard
, p. 101.

9. Murray, pp. 100-101.

10. Benkovitz,
Ronald Firbank
, p. 125.

11. Ibid., p. 181.

12. Taylor,
Bright Young People
, p. 286.

13. Benkovitz, p. 110.

14. Ibid., p. 112.

15. Ibid., p. 189.

16. Taylor, p. 232.

17. Benkovitz, p. 182.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid., p. 189.

20. Pryce-Jones,
The Bonus of Laughter
, p.
30.

21. Ibid., p. 31.

22. Taylor, p. 232.

23. Benkovitz, p. 249.

24. Plimpton,
Truman Capote
, p. 88.

25. Murray, p. 166.

26. Pryce-Jones,
The Bonus of Laughter
,
32-33.

27. Plimpton, p. 88.

28. Pryce-Jones,
The Bonus of Laughter
, p.
33.

29. Ibid., p. 31.

30. Ibid., p. 31.

31. Montgomery-Massingberd,
Great Houses of
England and Wales
, p. 209.

32. Kaczynski,
Perdurabo
, p. 435.

33. Montgomery-Massingberd, p. 212.

34. Wishart,
High Diver
, p. 52.

35. Richard Wall, “The World’s Most Expensive Male
Prostitute,”
Folio Weekly
(Jacksonville, Florida), June 12,
2012.

CHAPTER FOUR

1. Pryce-Jones,
   The Bonus of Laughter
   , p.
   29.
   

2. Buckle,
Self Portrait with Friends
, p.
27.

3. Ibid., p. 304.

4. Goldsmith,
Stephen Spender Journals
, p.
160.

5. Shelden,
Friends of Promises
, p.32.

6. Buckle, p. 305.

7. Beaton,
The Wandering Years
, p. 270.

8. Buckle, p. 304.

9. Ibid., p. 305.

10. Vickers,
Cecil Beaton
, p. 149.

11. Beaton, p. 222.

12. Vickers, p. 150.

13. Ibid., p. 151.

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid., p. 152.

16. Ibid., p. 155.

17. Ibid., p. 160.

18. Capote,
Answered Prayers
, p. 27.

19. Vickers, p. 160.

20. Ibid., p. 222.

21. Shelden, p. 181.

22. Ibid., p. 32.

23. Vickers, p. 175.

24. Ibid., p. 167.

25. Ibid.

26. Vickers, p. 397.

27. Wishart,
High Diver
, p. 49.

28. Shelden, p. 181.

29. Vickers, p. 148.

30. Shelden, p. 181.

31. Ibid., p. 117.

32. Ibid., p. 181.

33. Ibid.

34. Ibid.

35. Vickers, p. 397.

36. Shelden, p. 181.

37. Rorem,
A Ned Rorem Reader
, p. 275.

38. Geiger,
Nothing is True Everything is
Permitted
, p. 47.

39. Ibid., p. 50.

40. Bowles,
Without Stopping
, p. 211.

41.
The Times
, London, October 22, 1988, Anne
Campbell Dixon “Spurning the Suit of Paint Strictures: Interview
with John Craxton”.

42. Sutherland,
Stephen Spender
, p. 387.

43. Goldsmith, p. 434.

44. Shelden, p. 180.

45. Ibid., p. 30.

46. Undated letter from Peter Watson to Cecil Beaton
in Beaton Archives.

47. Shelden, p. 180, p. 29.

48. Cyril Connolly Papers, 1938.

49. Fisher,
Cyril Connolly
, p. 174.

50. Shelden, p. 33.

51. Fisher, p. 183.

52.
The Guardian
, Feb. 11, 1989, Stephen
Spender, “Waiting for Bombers”.

53. Spender,
World Within World
, p. 240.

54. Phelps and Rosco,
Continual Lessons
, p.
59.

55. Letter of Peter Watson to Cecil Beaton, Papers
of Cecil Beaton, Wednesday, Summer 1940 from Thatched Cottage
Thurlestons Sands, South Devon.

56. Shelden, p. 41.

57. Lewis,
Cyril Connolly
, p. 332.

58.
Christian Science Monitor
, Dec. 11, 1989,
Merle Rubin, “Horizon: Wartime Magazine that Kept Culture
Afloat”.

59. Spender,
The Thirties and After
, p.
66.

CHAPTER FIVE

1. Bucknell,
   Christopher Isherwood: Lost Years: A
   Memoir
   , p. 4.
   

2. Parker,
Isherwood: A Life Revealed
, p.
359.

3. Ibid., p. 375.

4. Murray,
Aldous Huxley
, p. 253.

5. Ibid., p. 377.

6. Ibid., p. 378.

7. Lewis,
Cyril Connolly: A Life
, p. 380.

8. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood Diaries:
Volume One: 1939-1960
, p. 118.

9. Lewis, p. 380.

10. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood Diaries
,
p. 118.

11. Isherwood,
My Guru and His Disciple
, pp.
59-60.

12. Berg and Freeman,
Conversations with
Christopher Isherwood
, p. 187.

13. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood Diaries
,
p. 118.

14. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood: Lost
Years
, p. 222; Finney,
Christopher Isherwood: A Critical
Biography
, p. 226.

15. Isherwood,
Down There on a Visit
, pp.
185-186.

16. Ibid., p. 186.

17. Ibid., p. 184.

18. Ibid., p. 187.

19. Parker, p. 594.

20. Isherwood,
My Guru and His Disciple
, p.
60.

21. Isherwood,
Down There on a Visit
, p.
196.

22. Ibid., p. 198.

23. Ibid., p. 202.

24. Ibid., p. 203.

25. Ibid., p. 204.

26. Ibid.

27. Ibid., p. 207.

28. Ibid., p. 209.

29. Ibid.

30. Ibid., p. 210.

31. Ibid.

32. Ibid., p. 211.

33. Ibid., p. 231.

34. Ibid., p. 229.

35. Ibid.

36. Ibid., p. 240.

37. Ibid., p. 246.

38. Ibid.

39. Ibid., p. 253.

40. Ibid., p. 268.

41. Ibid., p. 270.

42. Ibid., p. 276.

43. Ibid., p. 292.

44. Ibid., p. 294.

45. Ibid., p. 295.

46. Ibid.

47. Ibid., p. 296.

48. Ibid., p. 298.

49. Ibid., p. 299.

50. Finney, pp. 243-244.

51. Ibid., p. 235.

52. Berg and Freeman, p. 187. Isherwood, in June of
1961, gave the manuscript of
Down There On a Visit
to Truman
Capote to read. Capote told a friend that he “liked it
very
much. Sort of ‘Goodbye to Berlin’ brought up to date. It’s almost
too
frank.” Clarke,
Too Brief a Treat
, p. 321.

53. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood Diaries
,
pp. 122-123.

54. Ibid., p. 123.

55. Isherwood,
My Guru and His Disciple
, p.
61.

56. Ibid., p. 61.

57. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood Diaries
,
p. 123.

58. Ibid., p. 144.

59. Parker, p. 452.

60. Isherwood,
My Guru and His Disciple
, p.
62.

61. Ibid., p. 84.

62. Ibid., p. 82.

63. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood Diaries
,
p. 172.

64. Ibid, p. 171.

65. Isherwood,
My Guru and His Disciple
, p.
82.

66. Ibid., p. 83.

67. Ibid.

68. Isherwood,
Down There on a Visit
, p.
239.

69. Isherwood,
My Guru and His Disciple
, p.
161.

70. Parker, p. 425.

71. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood Diaries
,
p. 156.

72. Ibid., p. 140.

73. Isherwood,
My Guru and His Disciple
, pp.
83-84.

74. Ibid., p. 85.

75. Ibid., p. 86.

76. Ibid., p. 85.

77. Ibid., p. 85.

78. Ibid., p. 86. Denham Fouts’ notebooks are with
the Christopher Isherwood Papers.

79. Denham Fouts’ draft novel is with the
Christopher Isherwood Papers.

80. Robert Louis Stevenson, “My First Book—Treasure
Island”; foreword to
Treasure Island
, New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1902, pp. x-xi.

81. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood Diaries
,
p. 180.

82. Ibid., p. 232.

83. Ibid., p. 274.

84. Ibid.

85. Ibid., p. 348.

86. Ibid., p. 352.

87. Finney, pp. 184-185.

88. Isherwood,
My Guru and His Disciple
, p.
180.

89. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood: Lost
Years
, p. 10.

90. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood Diaries
,
p. 297.

91. Ibid., p. 254.

92. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood: Lost
Years
, p. 13.

93. Isherwood,
My Guru and His Disciple
, p.
179.

94. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood Diaries
,
p. 316.

95. Ibid., p. 314.

96. Ibid., p. 158.

97. Parker, p. 474.

98. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood Diaries
,
p. 341-342.

99. Ibid., p. 349.

100. Shelden,
Friends of Promise
, p. 58.

101. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood: Lost
Years
, p. 212.

102. Ibid., p. 35.

103. Ibid., p. 40.

104. Isherwood,
My Guru and His Disciple
, pp.
136-137.

105. Isherwood,
Christopher Isherwood: Lost
Years
, p. 18.

106. Ibid., p. 6.

107. Ibid., p. 19.

108. Ibid., p. 32.

109. Ibid., p. xvi; p. 275.

110. Ibid., p. 46.

111. Christopher Isherwood Papers, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.

112. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood: Lost
Years
, p. 69.

113. Ibid., p. 70.

114. Berg and Freeman, pp. 186-187.

115. Isherwood,
Down There on a Visit
, p.
31

CHAPTER SIX

1. Plimpton,
Truman Capote
, pp. 87-88.

2. Hibbard,
Paul Bowles Magic & Morocco
,
p. 68.

3. Symonds,
The Beast 666
, pp. 566-567.

4. Unpublished Diaries of Aleister Crowley, p.
20.

5. Shelden,
Friends of Promise
, p. 116.

6. Papers of Cecil Beaton, undated letter of Peter
Watson to Beaton.

7. Papers of Cecil Beaton, undated letter of Peter
Watson to Beaton.

8. Shelden, p. 181.

9. Ibid., p. 58.

10. Ibid., p. 59.

11. Ibid.

12. Shelden, p. 179.

13. Ibid., p. 180. As described by Michel Shelden in
Friends of Promise
, the two in early June left London for
Paris, road bicycles around the city each day, “visited Museums and
Watson’s favourite galleries, and in the evenings they almost
always went out—to plays, nightclubs, or even the opera. They ate
at the best restaurants ...At the end of June they went to the
South of France and spent July there in Cannes, Nice, and Monte
Carlo. August found them in Switzerland, Florence, Rome and Capri.
Early in September they were back in Paris for several days, then
returned to London. “I haven’t got much to say about love yet,”
Hansen wrote to a friend in September, “I’m too busy relaxing in
it.” (pp. 184-185). Hansen had a poem published in
Horizon
in May, reviewed books for the publication and served as editorial
reader.

14. Ibid., p. 181.

15. Vidal,
Palimpsest
, pp. 25, 26.

16. Ibid., p. 82.

17. Ibid., p. 29-30.

18. Ibid., p. 83.

19. Ibid., p. 31.

20. Ibid., p. 281.

21. Ibid., p. 27.

22. Kaplan,
Gore Vidal
, p. 785.

23. Vidal, p. 84.

24. Ibid., p. 32.

25. Ibid., p. 34.

26. Ibid., p. 312.

27. Ibid.

28. Ibid., 165-166.

29. Ibid., p. 35.

30. Ibid.

31. Ibid., p. 166.

32. Ibid., p. 166.

33. Ibid., 34-35.

34. Ibid., p. 166.

35. Dick,
The Apostate Angel
, p. 13.

36. Vidal,
The Last Empire
, p. 115.

37. Vidal,
Palimpsest
, p. 174.

38. Vidal,
The Last Empire
, p. 115.

39. Vidal,
At Home
, p. 289.

40. Vidal,
Palimpsest
, p. 169. Surprisingly,
in light of his friendship with Gore Vidal and being in Paris at
the same time, there is no evidence that Tennessee Williams ever
met Denham Fouts.

41. Bucknell,
Christopher Isherwood Diaries
,
p. 401.