James Courage Diaries Brickell Chris
James Courage Diaries Brickell Chris New Zealand author James Courage was born in Christchurch in 1903, and he became aware of his homosexuality during his adolescent years. He was much more sexually…
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James Courage Diaries Brickell Chris
New Zealand author James Courage was born in Christchurch in 1903, and he became aware of his homosexuality during his adolescent years. He was much more sexually open than most of his homosexual writer contemporaries - Frank Sargeson, Eric McCormick, Charles Brasch and Bill Pearson. He moved to London in 1927 and began writing novels, plays, poems and short stories.
Between 1920 and 1963, Courage confided his innermost thoughts to a private diary. A Way of Love, published in 1959, was the first gay novel written by a New Zealander, and some of his other seven novels (including Fires in the Distance and The Call Home) contain queer characters. He wrote about leaving New Zealand, the men he met in London's streets, and forging friendships in the literary scene.
He was an evocative chronicler of landscapes and indoor settings: life on long ocean voyages, air raid shelters during the war,