Title: My father & myself
Description: Ackerly, a British author and editor, recounts his investigation of his father' secret life and his own homosexuality.

Ackerley's father was a successful importer and a bluff, hearty fellow-- qualities that, in his lifetime, were little appreciated by his gay and literary son. On his death, however, he left a letter revealing that his life of respectable prosperity was a fac̜ade. Thus began what for Ackerley was an ongoing quest to comprehend a father who remained always just beyond his reach.
Subjects: Family relationships, Gay men, English Authors, Biography, Fathers and sons, Family, Fathers, Homosexuality, Personal narratives, Gays, Families, Authors, biography, Gays, family relationships
Places: Great Britain, England
People: J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967), J.R. Ackerley (1896-1967), Alfred Roger Ackerley
Time periods: 20th century