Quentin Crisp: The Profession of Being

A Biography by Nigel Kelly

My first book Quentin Crisp: The Profession of Being was published by McFarland of the USA on 14th October 2011.
It has World-Wide distribution and is available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Barnes and Noble, TheBookDepository.co.uk, Waterstones, Books a Million, WHSmiths, Blackwell's and Eurospan bookstore.

The Profession of Being is now available on Kindle from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

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Receiving my 10 complimentary copies from
the publisher. (They'll all spoken for.)

While writing the book I liaiased with many of Quentin's friends, whom I already had built up a relationship with over the years of running my website, and through them made contact with many more people who had known and worked with him. Using these contacts and reading all his books (there are sixteen) as well as those books written about him, watching as many of his film performances as I could (there are a great deal more than you might think), watching his interviews and documentary appearances, I put together a book which while it treads some familiar paths (most people know the general layout of his life), it also has a lot of bits and pieces about Quentin which I believe have never appeared in print before.

The bulk of the book is a biography of Quentin using the above mentioned sources.

The second part is a look at his philosophy which he encapsulated in his bons mots.

The final part is a series of tributes from those who knew him best.