Best-Kept Boy in the World
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The very interesting, but short, life of Denham Fouts
Truman Capote once joked that if Denham Fouts had accepted Adolf Hitler's advances, the Second World War might never have happened. It's the kind of outrageous claim that sums up Fouts perfectly: a man who left behind almost nothing of his own making, and yet somehow ended up at the centre of some of the twentieth century's most extraordinary company.
He never published a novel, painted a canvas or held a job for more than a few months. Instead, he became a muse to Capote, Christopher Isherwood and Gore Vidal, was kept in turn by a German baron, a Greek prince and a British lord, and briefly had a real Picasso hanging in his own apartment.
He died broke, addicted and largely forgotten, at 34.
Longer story here https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post...
Truman Capote once joked that if Denham Fouts had accepted Adolf Hitler's advances, the Second World War might never have happened. It's the kind of outrageous claim that sums up Fouts perfectly: a man who left behind almost nothing of his own making, and yet somehow ended up at the centre of some of the twentieth century's most extraordinary company.
He never published a novel, painted a canvas or held a job for more than a few months. Instead, he became a muse to Capote, Christopher Isherwood and Gore Vidal, was kept in turn by a German baron, a Greek prince and a British lord, and briefly had a real Picasso hanging in his own apartment.
He died broke, addicted and largely forgotten, at 34.
Longer story here https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post...
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