Quentin Crisp.

Tim Fountain spent time with Quentin during the last year of his life, while doing his research into creating his stage play, based on his life and writings.
The play entitled Resident Alien : Quentin Crisp Explains It All, went on to great success and was published as a book.

Tim later wrote a book about his experiences getting to know Quentin.

In Quentin Crisp Tim Fountain tells his story against the backdrop of Crisp's colourful and controversial life and sheds some light on the intriguing events leading up to his death.

It is a compelling portrait of man who Fountain calls a 'great, glittering contradiction': a man who flaunted his sexuality at a time when the penalty for buggery was jail, a man whose very name epitomized style and yet lived alone in abject poverty in a room he refused to