{"title":"Quentin Crisp","description":"Quentin Crisp was born on Christmas Day 1908 in Sutton, a suburb of London. After leaving school he became an illustrator and a designer of book covers before spending the next 35 years of his life as an artists' model. In 1981 he moved to New York City and became a resident alien, living in a one bedroom flat in Chelsea which he famously never cleaned (\"After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse\"), and describing himself as a \"resident waif.\" He died in 1999, just one month short of his 91st birthday.","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/quentin-crisp.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}