Quentin Crisp: The Profession of Being
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. I didn't realise at the time that it would occupy most of my 'free' time for the next three years.
But incredibly I now have a book written which was published by McFarland on 14th October 2011.
Find out all about the book on my personal website. nigelkelly.com
During those three years I 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.
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. I didn't realise at the time that it would occupy most of my 'free' time for the next three years.
But incredibly I now have a book written which was published by McFarland on 14th October 2011.
Find out all about the book on my personal website. nigelkelly.com
During those three years I 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.