The Who am I game

Merci, merci...

PS: believe it or not, but some guy really compiled a book on Shakespeare and golf: see here.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just ordered the book. :D

One more clue for the crowd: Our subject spent some of his last years in Africa.
 
So here we go...


This gentleman, shown in this portrait with his wife, had series of affairs with men before marrying

He has written a lot about his subject, one in which is acknowledged as a great influencer of others who came after him. Although he also had well-known detractors in his field.

He held a personal belief (not necessarily related to his field) that few people of today would find tolerable.
 
So here we go...


This gentleman, shown in this portrait with his wife, had series of affairs with men before marrying

He has written a lot about his subject, one in which is acknowledged as a great influencer of others who came after him. Although he also had well-known detractors in his field.

He held a personal belief (not necessarily related to his field) that few people of today would find tolerable.

Could it be Cole Porter?
 
There has been a renewed interest in his theories in the last year or so.
 
Keynes was a fan of eugenics, believe it or not. So, given his intellect....I have had a hard time getting behind him. So to speak.

Actually, the eugenics thing is a bad thing. And not anywhere in my vocabulary.

I believe, Mr Yanks, that it is your turn.

(I would get all Queenly, but I have honestly forgotten where My Realm lies. I hate that. Who...What...Where....Whatever.....). Chauderlos...I need you, I think.

~LB
 
Could one movie from his works have starred the adorable Audrey Hepburn?
 
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Forget it, it was a wrong guess.

I was thinking about Truman Capote, who worked for the New Yorker for a while.

Ah, of course. However, Truman Capote was short, round, and had light-colored hair.

Our subject was mostly a contemporary of Fitzgerald and Hemingway.

He was twice nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature.

His reputation among literary critics is quite inverse to the regard in which he was held by other writers - for his craft, if not for his personality.

His most famous character shared one feature of his own upbringing: they both were sons of doctors.
 
Ah, of course. However, Truman Capote was short, round, and had light-colored hair.

Our subject was mostly a contemporary of Fitzgerald and Hemingway.

He was twice nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature.

His reputation among literary critics is quite inverse to the regard in which he was held by other writers - for his craft, if not for his personality.

His most famous character shared one feature of his own upbringing: they both were sons of doctors.

J.D Salinger? rough guess.
 
I'm afraid we shall need a few more clues, Mr MWY...

I think the single best clue is that Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor each starred in a movie that was based on one of his novels.

He was born in Pennsylvania.

His most famous book ends in a suicide.
 
I think the single best clue is that Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor each starred in a movie that was based on one of his novels.

He was born in Pennsylvania.

His most famous book ends in a suicide.

I believe it is John O'Hara. Pal Joey was made into a film starring Sinatra and BUtterfield 8 was Taylor's movie.
 
Could that be one Heywood Hale Broun?

Excellent guess Yanks!

But no.

(However I am indebted to his mother Ruth Hale, an ardent activist in the right of a woman to maintain her birth name, rather than take on the name of her husband).
 
Excellent guess Yanks!

But no.

(However I am indebted to his mother Ruth Hale, an ardent activist in the right of a woman to maintain her birth name, rather than take on the name of her husband).

How can an incorrect guess be excellent? Is this what they mean by grade inflation? :p
 
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