Crisp, Quentin

Crisp, Quentin
▪ 2000
Dennis Charles Pratt 
      British author, performer, and raconteur who transcended physical abuse and poverty during his early years as a commercial artist, male prostitute, and nude artists' model to achieve international celebrity in 1968 with the publication of his witty and candid autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant (filmed for television, 1975). Styling himself “one of the stately homos of England,” Crisp made a virtue of his flamboyant, dandified appearance and talent for acerbic bon mots. He wrote several more books, notably How to Have a Lifestyle (1975), How to Become a Virgin (1981), and Resident Alien (1997); appeared on television, in films, and in a one-man stage show; and ultimately gained icon status within the gay community in England and the U.S., where he settled in 1981 (b. Dec. 25, 1908, Sutton, Surrey, Eng.—d. Nov. 21, 1999, Manchester, Eng.).

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