Denny, long before he surfaced in my cove, was a legend well-known to me, a myth entitled Best-Kept Boy in the World.-Truman Capote Denham Denny Fouts, the twentieth century's most famous male prostitute, was a socialite and literary muse whose extraordinary life started off humbly in Jacksonville, Florida. But in short order he befriended and bedded the rich and celebrated and in the process conquered the world. No less an august figure than the young Gore Vidal was enchanted by Denny's special charms. He twice modeled characters on Denny in his fiction, saying it was a pity that Denny never wrote a memoir. To Vidal he was un homme fatal. Truman Capote, who devoted a third of Answered Prayers to Denny's life story, found that to watch him walk into a room was an experience. He was beyond being good-looking he was the single most charming-looking person I've ever seen. Writer Christopher Isherwood was more to the point he called Denny the most expensive male prostitute in the world. In