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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.
11 wrz 2019 · At that moment, looking into his sad, ancient eyes filled with vintage mascara, I realized that Quentin Crisp must be the loneliest man I had ever met. His deep melancholy was only exceeded by the abject bitterness he had learned to temper with acerbic wit and self-deprecating humor.
Quentin Crisp, właściwie Denis Charles Pratt (ur. 25 grudnia 1908 w Sutton, zm. 21 listopada 1999 w Manchesterze) – angielski pisarz i aktor. Urodził się w Sutton (hrabstwo Surrey w Anglii) jako czwarte dziecko prawnika Spencera Pratta i guwernantki Marion Pratt.
Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt, 1908–1999) was a gay writer, performer, and raconteur. He was born on Christmas Day 1908 in Sutton, and went to Kingswood House, a private school in Epsom, and then on a scholarship to Denstone College, a public school in Uttoxeter.
12 lis 2020 · From a young age, Quentin Crisp was determined to be himself—makeup, painted nails, dramatically dyed hair, and all—even if it consigned him to a life of poverty and isolation. Hear the author, raconteur, and provocateur in a 1970 conversation with Studs Terkel before he found late-in-life fame.
The story of Quentin’s early years is a common one – the respectable professional family, the aloof, disapproving father, the doting mother, being sent to schools which would hopefully make a man of him … The Pratts. Quentin was born in Carshalton as Denis Charles Pratt on Christmas Day 1908.
1 lut 2019 · Although he faced harassment and abuse every single day, Crisp decided as a young man to live out his identity publicly, in a grand way, even outrageously, dying his hair scarlet, donning thick make-up and wearing colorful gender non-conforming clothes in a repressive England of the 1920s and 30s.
