Capote set sail on the Queen Elizabeth on May 14, joining the throng of Americans flocking to Europe after the War. Waldemar, who had met Truman in New York City, knew his friend well. "Truman Capote is all the rage here," Peter Watson's lover, Waldemar Hansen, wrote from London on May 6, 1948, to a friend in the United States, noting he had heard that Denny had sent the beguiling young author a blank check with but one word written on it: "Come." "So now," Hansen added, "Capote will be turning up in Paris soon." Word of the new literary sensation already had spread to London and Paris even before Other Voices, Other Rooms was published anywhere in Europe. That photograph! That photograph of 24-year-old Truman Capote that appeared on the dust jacket of his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, published in January of 1948, a few days after the publication of Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar that photograph which Denny had seen in Life magazine and cut out and kept next to his bed under his opium pipe that photograph that showed the young author reclining on a Victorian sofa, looking ten years younger than his actual age, drilling the camera with smoldering eyes, his right hand touching himself suggestively that photograph that Capote had carefully staged, which became perhaps the most famous, infamous, photograph ever to grace a book jacket and drew endless attention to the novel and its ambitious author: that photograph had captured the imagination of Denham Fouts. The book is available now from Magnus Books.
But in short order he befriended (and bedded) the rich and celebrated and in the process conquered the world. The first book ever written about Denham (Denny) Fouts (1914-1948), the 20th century's most famous male prostitute Fouts was a socialite and muse whose extraordinary life started off humbly in Jacksonville, Florida. Truman Capote's jacket photo by Harold Halma for 'Other Voices, Other Rooms' via WikipediaĪn excerpt from Best-Kept Boy in the World, by Arthur Vanderbilt.
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