Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Famous Members of Their Entourages (Blood Moon's Babylon Series) (156 page)

He has also co-authored, in league with Danforth Prince, four
Hollywood Babylon
anthologies, plus four separate volumes of film critiques, reviews, and commentary.

His biographies, over the years, have won more than 30 First Prize or runner-up awards at literary festivals in cities which include Boston, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Paris.

Darwin can be heard at regular intervals as a radio commentator (and occasionally on television), “dissing” celebrities, pop culture, politics, and scandal.

A resident of New York City, Darwin is currently at work on his latest biography:
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams
.

The publisher and co-author of
Pink Triangle
, Danforth Prince
is one of the “Young Turks” of the post-millennium, post-recession publishing industry. Today, he’s president of Blood Moon Productions, a firm devoted to researching, salvaging, compiling, and marketing the oral histories of America’s entertainment industry.

One of Prince’s famous predecessors, the late Lyle Stuart (self-described as “the last publisher in America with guts”) once defined Prince as “one of my natural successors.” In 1956, that then-novice maverick launched himself with $8,000 he’d won in a libel judgment against gossip columnist Walter Winchell. It was Stuart who published Linda Lovelace’s two authentic memoirs—
Ordeal
and
Out of Bondage
.

“I like to see someone following in my footsteps in the 21
^st
Century,” Stuart told Prince. “You publish scandalous biographies. I did, too. My books on J. Edgar Hoover, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Barbara Hutton stirred up the natives. You do, too.”

Prince launched his career in journalism in the 1970s at the Paris Bureau of
The New York Times
. In the early ‘80s, he resigned to join Darwin Porter in researching, developing and publishing various titles within
The Frommer Guides
, jointly reviewing the travel scenes of more than 50 nations for Simon & Schuster. Authoritative and comprehensive, they were perceived as best-selling “travel bibles” for millions of readers, with recommendations and travel advice about the major nations of Western Europe, the Caribbean, Bermuda, The Bahamas, Georgia and the Carolinas, and California.

Prince, along with Porter, is also the co-author of several award-winning celebrity biographies, each configured as a title within Blood Moon’s Babylon series. These have included
Hollywood Babylon—It’s Back!; Hollywood Babylon Strikes Again; The Kennedys: All the Gossip Unfit to Print;
and
Frank Sinatra, The Boudoir Singer
. Prior to the publication of
Pink Triangle
, their most recent joint authorship venture was
Elizabeth Taylor: There Is Nothing Like a Dame
. Prince, with Porter, has also co-authored four separate volumes of film criticism.

Prince is the president and founder (in 1996) of the Georgia Literary Association, and of the Porter and Prince Corporation, founded in 1983, which has produced dozens of titles for both Prentice Hall and John Wiley & Sons. In 2011, he was named “Publisher of the Year” by a consortium of literary critics and marketers spearheaded by the J.M. Northern Media Group.

According to Prince, “Indeed, there are drudge aspects associated with any attempt to create a body of published work. But Blood Moon provides the luxurious illusion that a reader is a perpetual guest at some gossippy dinner party populated with brilliant but occasionally self-delusional figures from bygone eras of The American Experience. Blood Moon’s success at salvaging, documenting, and articulating the (till now) orally transmitted histories of the Entertainment Industry, in ways that have never been seen before, is one of the most distinctive aspects of our backlist.”

Publishing in collaboration with the National Book Network (
www.NBN-Books.com
), he has electronically documented some of the controversies associated with his stewardship of Blood Moon in more than 40 videotaped documentaries, book trailers, public speeches, and TV or radio interviews. Any of these can be watched, without charge, by performing a search for “Danforth Prince” on
YouTube.com
, checking him out on
Facebook
(either “Danforth Prince” or “Blood Moon Productions), on
Twitter
(#BloodyandLunar) or by clicking on
BloodMoonProductions.com
.

During the rare moments when he isn’t writing, editing, neurosing about, or promoting Blood Moon, he works out at a New York City gym, rescues stray animals, talks to strangers, and regularly attends Episcopal Mass every Sunday.