#books #biography | The Best-Kept Boy in the World: The Life and Loves of Denny Fouts

The Best-Kept Boy in the World: The Life and Loves of Denny Fouts / Arthur Vanderbilt
Magnus Books, New York : 2013 [11-30]
260 p.
ISBN 9781936833412
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/ Denham Fouts / Gigolós / Historia – Siglo XX / Prostitución / Testimonios

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. A graduate of Wesleyan University and University of Virginia School of Law, Arthur Vanderbilt is the author of many books of history, biography, memoirs, and essays. His books have been selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Readers Digest's "Today's Best Nonfiction," the Easton Press series, and other book clubs, and have been serialized in newspapers and magazines, both here and abroad, translated into foreign languages, excerpted for anthologies, and optioned for television movies. He lives in New Jersey and Massachusetts.

DOCUMENTACIÓN
El gigoló que enamoró a los hombres influyentes
El libro 'Best-kept boy in the world' descubre la figura del gigoló Denham Fouts, amante de reyes y artistas y numen de escritores como Truman Capote o Gore Vidal.
Iñaki Laguardia | S Moda, El País, 2014-11-10
http://smoda.elpais.com/articulos/el-hombre-que-amo-al-abuelo-de-felipe-vi/5538
The Best-Kept Boy In the World
Denny Fouts, the most famous male prostitute of the 20th century, had Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and many others
Arthur Vanderbilt | Out, 2014-10-30
http://www.out.com/entertainment/art-books/2014/10/30/best-kept-boy-world-denny-fouts-famous-male-prostitute-truman-capote