"Quentin Crisp Speaks" May 15 1997 Video by Elizabeth Boyle Radzilowski 9 14 2021 copyright (c.)

At the age of 89, Quentin Crisp attended a book signing for his book: Resident Alien: The New York Diaries. He appeared at Lambda Rising Books, Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. on the evening of May 15, 1997. I videotaped his appearance.


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Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt; 25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer, raconteur and actor. From a conventional suburban background, Crisp wore make-up and painted his nails. His father was a Solictor and his wife a former Governess. During his teen years he worked briefly as a rent boy. He then spent thirty years as a professional model for life-classes in art colleges. The interviews he gave about his unusual life attracted great curiosity and he was soon sought after for his personal views on social manners and the cultivation of style. His one-man stage show was a long-running hit both in Britain and America and he also appeared in films and on T.V. Crisp defied convention by criticising both gay liberation and Diana, Princess of Wales.

Mr. Crisp died of a heart attack in November 1999, nearly one month before his 91st birthday, in Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester, on the eve of a nationwide revival of his one-man show. A humorous pact he had made with Penny Arcade to live to be a century old, with a decade off for good behavior, proved prophetic. He was cremated with a minimum of ceremony as he had requested, and his ashes were flown back to his personal assistant and travel companion Phillip Ward in New York.
Works
Lettering for Brush and Pen (1936), Quentin Crisp and A.F. Stuart, Frederick Warne Ltd. Manual on typefaces for advertising.
Colour In Display (1938) Quentin Crisp, 131 pp., The Blandford Press. Manual on the use of colour in window displays.
All This and Bevin Too (1943) Quentin Crisp, illustrated by Mervyn Peake, Mervyn Peake Society ISBN 0-9506125-0-2. Parable, in verse, about an unemployed kangaroo.
The Naked Civil Servant (1968) Quentin Crisp, 222 pp., Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-654044-9. Crisp's account of the first half of his life.
Love Made Easy (1977) Quentin Crisp, 154 pp., Duckworth, ISBN 0-7156-1188-7. Fantastical, semi-autobiographical novel.
How to Have a Life Style (1975), Quentin Crisp, 159 pp., Cecil Woolf Publ., ISBN 0-900821-83-3. Essays on charisma and personality.
Chog: A Gothic Fable (1979), Quentin Crisp, Methuen, London. Illustrated by Jo Lynch, Magnum (1981).
How to Become a Virgin (1981) Quentin Crisp, 192 pp., Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-638798-5. The second installment of autobiography, describing his experience of the fame that The Naked Civil Servant and its dramatisation brought.
Doing It With Style (1981) Quentin Crisp, with Donald Carroll, illustrated by Jonathan Hills, 157 pp., Methuen, ISBN 0-413-47490-9. A guide to thoughtful and stylish living.
The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp (1984) Quentin Crisp, edited by Guy Kettelhack, Harper & Row, 140 pp., ISBN 0-06-091178-6. Compilation of Crisp's essays and quotations.
Manners from Heaven: a divine guide to good behaviour (1984) Quentin Crisp, with John Hofsess, Hutchinson, ISBN 0-09-155810-7. Instructions for compassionate living.
How to Go to the Movies (1988) Quentin Crisp, 224 pp., St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-05444-0. Movie reviews and essays on film.
Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations, also published as The Gay and Lesbian Quotation Book: a literary companion (1989) edited by Quentin Crisp, Hale, 185 pp. ISBN 0-7090-5605-2. Anthology of gay-related quotes.
Resident Alien: The New York Diaries (1996) Quentin Crisp, 232 pp., Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-638717-9. Diaries and recollections from 1990–94.
The Last Word: An Autobiography, (2017) Quentin Crisp, edited by Phillip Ward and Laurence Watts, MB Books, 232 pp., ISBN 0692968482. Quentin Crisp's final book, the third and last installment of his autobiography, written during the last two years of his life.
And One More Thing, (2019) Quentin Crisp, edited by Phillip Ward and Laurence Watts, MB Books, 193 pp., ISBN 0692168095. A companion book to Quentin Crisp's The Last Word: An Autobiography. Crisp shares his views on other people, their lives and their opinions. Included is the script for Quentin’s Alternative Christmas Message, broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4 in 1993, the script of his one-man show An Evening With Quentin Crisp and his collected poetry.
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