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Denham "Denny" Fouts (May 9, 1914 – December 16, 1948) was an American male prostitute and socialite. He served as the inspiration for characters by Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood, and Gavin Lambert. He was allegedly a lover of Prince Paul of Greece and French actor Jean Marais.
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Denham "Denny" Fouts (May 9, 1914 – December 16, 1948) was an American male prostitute and socialite. He served as the inspiration for characters by Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood, and Gavin Lambert. He was allegedly a lover of Prince Paul of Greece and French actor Jean Marais.
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Biography From Jacksonville, Florida, he was born Louis Denham Fouts, a son of Yale graduate Edwin Fouts, who was the president of a broom factory, and his wife, the former Mary E. Denham (1890–1970). He had two siblings, Ellen (born 1916) and Frederic (1918–1994). In 1926, 12-year-old Fouts submitted a letter to Time magazine, protesting the abuse of animals in the making of movies. In his teens, Fouts worked as a clerk at an ice-cream company in Jacksonville. Later he was sent north by his father to Washington, D.C., having asked a relative, who was the president of Safeway Inc., to give him a job. Fouts left for Manhattan, working for a time as a stock boy and attracting a good deal of attention for his looks, which were described as "thin as a hieroglyph, he had dark hair, light brown eyes, and a cleft chin." Writer Glenway Wescott considered him "absolutely enchanting and ridiculously good-looking." He was taken up by a series of wealthy male and female patrons. His friends, who called him Denny, included Christopher Isherwood, Brion Gysin, Glenway Wescott, Truman Capote, George Platt Lynes, Jane and Paul Bowles, Jean and Cyril Connolly, and Michael Wishart. Isherwood described…
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Literary references Gavin Lambert's roman à clef Norman's Letter contains a character based on Fouts. Truman Capote's "Unspoiled Monsters", contained in his Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel, is based on Capote's conception of Fouts' life. Gore Vidal's short story "Pages from an Abandoned Journal", contained in his 1956 work A Thirsty Evil: Seven Short Stories is based on Fouts' life. Vidal was introduced to Fouts by John Lehmann. Christopher Isherwood's Down There on a Visit contains the novella Paul, whose titular character is based on Fouts. Michael Wishart, the painter, had an affair with Fouts, which his autobiography High Diver details.