Best Kept Boy in the World by Arthur Vanderbilt

Best Kept Boy in the World by Arthur Vanderbilt

Denny, long before he surfaced in my cove, was a legend well-known to me, a myth entitled: Best-Kept Boy in the World.-Truman Capote Denham (Denny) Fouts, the twentieth century's most famous male prostitute, was a socialite and literary muse whose extraordinary life started off humbly in Jacksonville, Florida. But in short order he befriended (and bedded) the rich and celebrated and in the process conquered the world. No less an august figure than the young Gore Vidal was enchanted by Denny's special charms. He twice modeled characters on Denny in his fiction, saying it was a pity that Denny never wrote a memoir. To Vidal he was un homme fatal. Truman Capote, who devoted a third of Answered Prayers to Denny's life story, found that to watch him walk into a room was an experience. He was beyond being good-looking; he was the single most charming-looking person I've ever seen. Writer Christopher Isherwood was more to the point: he called Denny the most expensive male prostitute in the world. In his short life, Denny achieved a mythic status, and Best-Kept Boy in the World for the first time follows him into his rarefied world of barons and shipping tycoons, lords, princes, heirs of great fortunes, artists, and authors. Here is the story of an American original, a story with an amazing cast of unforgettable characters and extraordinary settings, the book Gore Vidal wished Denny had written. Arthur Vanderbilt is the author of many books of history, biography, memoirs, and essays. He lives in New Jersey and Massachusetts.

Arthur Vanderbilt, an attorney and author of 10 books, lives in New Jersey. His books have been selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club and other book clubs, the Reader's Digest, serialized in newspapers and magazines both here and abroad, published in foreign editions, and optioned for television movies.

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ISBN 13	9781936833412
ISBN 10	1936833417
Title	Best Kept Boy in the World
Author	Arthur Vanderbilt
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Magnus Books
Year published	2014-11-25
Number of pages	190
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