num_pages: 1104
description: The late novelist, idolized as an elder statesman of the gay liberation movement, narrates his life following his emigration to America in 1939, from his pacifism during the war to his friendships with the period's actors and literary figures. Reprint.
language: English
title: Diaries: Volume 1, 1939-1960
titlecomplete: Diaries: Volume 1, 1939-1960
characters: Aldous Huxley, W.H. Auden, Howard Austen, Heinz Neddermeyer, W. Somerset Maugham, Gavin Lambert, Don Bachardy, Swami Prabhavananda, Tom Driberg, Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Christopher Isherwood, Joseph Cotten, Gore Vidal, Dylan Thomas, Cyril Connolly, William Caskey
genres: Classics, LGBT, Autobiography, Gay, Diary, Biography, Writing, Memoir, Nonfiction, Queer
ratings_count: 158
places: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
publisher: Harper Perennial