Crisperanto: The Life And Legacy Of Quentin Crisp
In June 2007 my wife and I were injured in a car accident. Thankfully my wife was less seriously injured, but I was of work for some months.
I become extremely restless with nothing to do. But I could still write. So I started writing a book on Quentin. I didn't start seriously thinking that it would come to anything. I did it to occupy my mind; to stop myself going even crazier that I already was.
But incredibly here I am three years on and I have a book written and have a publisher.
Preliminary cover design for book.
And so Crisperanto: The Life And Legacy Of Quentin Crisp is to be published in September 2010 and distributed in the US, Canada, Australia and Great Britain.
During these past three years I have liaiased with many of Quentin's friends, whom I already had built up a relationship with over the years of running my website, and through them made contact with many more people who had known and worked with him. Using these contacts and reading all his books (there are sixteen) as well as those books written about him, watching as many of his film performances as I could (there are a great deal more than you might think), watching his interviews and documentary appearances, I put together a book which while it treads some familiar paths (most people know the general layout of his life), it also has a lot of bits and pieces about Quentin which I believe have never appeared in print before.
The bulk of the book is a biography of Quentin using the above mentioned sources.
The second part is a look at his philosophy which he encapsulated in his bons mots.
The final part is a series of tributes from those who knew him best.
You can read Guy Kettelhack's Forword to my book.
You can read my Acknowledgements page.
I become extremely restless with nothing to do. But I could still write. So I started writing a book on Quentin. I didn't start seriously thinking that it would come to anything. I did it to occupy my mind; to stop myself going even crazier that I already was.
But incredibly here I am three years on and I have a book written and have a publisher.
Preliminary cover design for book.
During these past three years I have liaiased with many of Quentin's friends, whom I already had built up a relationship with over the years of running my website, and through them made contact with many more people who had known and worked with him. Using these contacts and reading all his books (there are sixteen) as well as those books written about him, watching as many of his film performances as I could (there are a great deal more than you might think), watching his interviews and documentary appearances, I put together a book which while it treads some familiar paths (most people know the general layout of his life), it also has a lot of bits and pieces about Quentin which I believe have never appeared in print before.
The bulk of the book is a biography of Quentin using the above mentioned sources.
The second part is a look at his philosophy which he encapsulated in his bons mots.
The final part is a series of tributes from those who knew him best.
You can read Guy Kettelhack's Forword to my book.
You can read my Acknowledgements page.