![]() ![]() ![]() The Hervey family gradually migrated east to Mobile, Alabama. Born into a family of hotel mongers in Beaumont, Texas at the dawn of the 20th century, as a boy Hervey possessed an early love for reading and an unrelenting imagination that would’ve been considered unwieldy had he been raised anywhere else but the American South. Lasting only 51 years, his existence was defined by wanderlust, a cycle of critical acclaim and destitution, repeated chameleoning to fit America’s shifting attitude about homosexuality, and a god-given knack for self-promotion. Harlan Greene’s biography is the first book to thoroughly assess Hervey’s early short fiction, novels, and the impromptu voyages to Asia that inspired them it is also the first to acknowledge his swishy influence on Golden Age screenwriting. The Damned Don’t Cry- They Just Disappear: The Life and Times of Harry Hervey lifts a forgotten Southern writer from the obscure archives where he’s been trapped for nearly seventy years, in dire need of a gossip column mention and a Singapore Sling. ![]()
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