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The Orton Diaries

by John Lahr, Joe Orton, Nicholas Furini

20th centuryAutobiographyDiariesDramatists, EnglishEnglish DramatistsGay dramatistsBiographyLGBTQ diaries

Fron December 1966 to his murder in August 1967, Joe Orton kept a series of diaries that prove to be one of the most candid and unfettered accounts of that remarkable era. They chronicle his life from his literary success to his sexual escapades.

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Book data: Open Library