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Quentin Crisp Biography (1908-1999)

Born Denis Pratt, December 25, 1908, in Sutton, England; immigrated to UnitedStates, 1977. Addresses: HOME--46 E. Third Street, New York, NY 10003.

Nationality

English

Gender

Male

Birth Details

December 25, 1908

Sutton, England

Death Details

November 21, 1999

Manchester, England

Famous Works

• Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE APPEARANCES
• An Evening with Quentin Crisp (one-man show), Players Theatre, New York City, 1978.
• Lady Bracknell, The Importance of Being Earnest, Mercer Street Theatre, New York City, 1982.
• Lord Alfred Douglas (in 1945), Lord Alfred's Lover, New Vic Theatre, NewYork City, 1982.
• Also appeared in Hamlet, Royal College of Art, London, 1978.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM APPEARANCES
• Dr. Zalhus, The Bride, Columbia, 1985.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL TELEVISION APPEARANCES; SPECIALS
• The Naked Civil Servant, PBS.
• Credits; ALBUMS
• An Evening with Quentin Crisp, DRG, 1979.
• Writings
• Color in Display (non-fiction), Blandford Press, 1938.
• The Naked Civil Servant (autobiography), Jonathan Cape, 1968, then Holt,1977.
• How to Have a Life-Style (non-fiction), Cecil Woolf, 1975, then Methuen,1979.
• Love Made Easy (fiction), Duckworth, 1977.
• Chog: A Gothic Fable (fiction), Methuen, 1979.
• (with Donald Carroll) Doing It with Style (non-fiction), Franklin Watts,1981.
• How to Become a Virgin (autobiography), Duckworth, 1981, then St.
• Martin's, 1984.
• The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp, edited by Guy Kettlehack, Harper, 1984.
• (with John Hofsess) Manners from Heaven: A Divine Guide to Good Behavior(non-fiction), Harper, 1985.
• Also contributor to Christopher Street, Listener, and New York.