American journalist and writer Morton Fullerton was BOTD in 1865. Born William Morton Fullerton in Norwich, Connecticut to a prominent middle-class family, he was educated at private schools and studied at Harvard College, where he was the founding editor of The Harvard Monthly. He worked as a journalist in Boston, moving to Paris in 1890 to work as foreign correspondent for The Times of London. In 1910, he became a freelance journalist, publishing a series of books. During World War One, he volunteered as a soldier. After the war, he joined the staff of Parisian newspaper Le Figaro, where he remained for the rest of his life. Handsome, charming and rampantly homosexual, he had affairs with Spanish writer George Santayana, American art historian Bernard Berenson, English aristocrat and sculptor Lord Ronald Gower and a dalliance with the notoriously closeted writer Henry James. Via James, Fullerton was introduced to American writer Edith Wharton in 1906, helping publish the French-language version of her novel The House of Mirth. Wharton fell helplessly in love with Fullerton, and they began an affair, though her marriage and his love of dick made a serious commitment impossible. Their relationship ended in 1909, though they remained friends, Fiercely protective of her privacy, Wharton made Fullerton promise to destroy their correspondence. Fullerton was later engaged to his half-cousin Katharine Fullerton Gerould, who, perhaps wisely, broke off the engagement due to Fullerton’s unwillingness to commit to a wedding date. In later life, Fullerton lived (and sponged off) an older woman named Madame Mirecourt, and had a longer affair with Margaret Brooke, the unhappily married Ranee of Sarawak. He died in 1952, aged 86. His correspondence with Wharton (which he had, of course, neglected to destroy), was published in 1988. Interest in his life was reignited by Hermione Lee’s 2013 biography of Wharton and Marion Mainwaring’s 2001 biography Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton.