American writer Glenway Wescott was BOTD in 1901. Born in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, he won a scholarship to the University of Chicago, where he met his life partner Monroe Wheeler. He withdrew from university after contracting Spanish flu and moved with Wheeler to New Mexico, publishing his first poetry collection The Bitterns in 1920. They settled in Paris, socialising with fellow expatriates Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1924, he published his first novel The Apple of the Eye. Later that year, he and Wheeler relocated to Villefranche-sur-Mer in the south of France, where they befriended Jean Cocteau. In 1926, they met the then-18 year old George Platt Lynes, with whom they lived in a thruple for the next two decades. Wescott’s literary reputation was boosted after the critical and commercial success of his 1927 novel The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait and his short story collection Goodbye, Wisconsin. With the outbreak of World War Two, Wescott, Wheeler and Lynes returned to the United States, becoming prominent members of the New York literary scene, socialising with a gay artistic milieu including W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Paul Cadmus and Lincoln Kirstein. Wescott also befriended the sexologist Alfred Kinsey, inviting him to gay sex parties as part of his research for Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male, introducing him to sado-masochists Mike Miksche and Samuel Steward and participating in erotic films made by the Kinsey Institute. In 1940 he published his most critically acclaimed novel, The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story. Lynes ended his relationship with Wescott and Wheeler in 1943, though they remained friends until Lynes’ death in 1955. Wescott’s literary output in the 1950s and 1960s was sparse, though he served as president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1975, he published The Best of All Possible Worlds: Journals, Letters and Remembrances, covering his Paris years. He died in 1987, aged 85. Two days later, Wheeler had a stroke, dying 18 months later. Wescott’s private journals were published in 1990, detailing his 70-year relationship with Wheeler.