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Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt; 25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English raconteur, whose work in the public eye included a memoir of his life and various media appearances. Before becoming well known, he was an artist's model, hence the title of his most famous work, The Naked Civil Servant.
7 lis 2017 · The Last Word is a rambling and deeply morbid series of monologues recorded a few months before Mr. Crisp died. Most readers will have heard the bon mots before, and in more polished form, but there are a few surprising revelations about his personal life.
28 gru 2011 · Laurence Watts meets Phillip Ward to discuss the life and work of Quentin Crisp, and his "simple philosophy of happiness and being".
Presented by San Francisco's Eureka Theatre Company in 2002, Carved In Stone, a play by Jeffrey Hargraves, features Quentin Crisp as a character in an afterlife group that includes Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, and Truman Capote.
14 mar 2011 · I have three stories about Quentin Crisp. After one of his “Evening with”s that he endlessly toured the country with, I asked him to sign a copy of his book for my mother. As he was doing so I told him that she thought he gave homosexuals a bad name!
27 paź 2017 · On November 21, 2017, Quentin Crisp’s book, “The Last Word,” will go on sale, eighteen years after his death – to the day. Phillip Ward, author, poet, archivist and curator of the Crisperanto: The Quentin Crisp Archives, co-edited the very personal volume with Crisp and Laurence Watts.
This biography chronicles Crisp's life, including his birth in pre-World War I England; his life as a gay youth on the streets of London; his early attempts at writing and job-seeking; his entry into the world of modeling; and his sudden success late in life.
