2 books by Michael Davidson
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Overview: Michael Davidson was born into an upper-middle-class family in Guernsey in 1897. He was educated at Lancing.
Davidson joined the army in 1914. After being wounded in 1916, he became a newspaper reporter and a supporter of the Communist Party. He translated a number of anti-Nazi books. When he lived in Berlin in early to mid-1930s, he wrote newspaper articles about the full implications of Hitler’s ideology, which he had seen up-close, but British newspapers were not interested in publishing the articles. After being harassed by the SA for being British, a communist, and a homosexual, Davidson fled Germany. He spent the rest of his life serving as a foreign correspondent for The Observer, The News Chronicle, The New York Times and other newspapers.
At age 26, Davidson met W. H. Auden, then 16, and they began a "poetic relationship". Davidson mentored Auden and helped him getting published.
Davidson was open with his love for adolescent boys. His 1962 autobiography "The World, the Flesh and Myself" begins: "This is the life-history of a lover of boys." His follow-up memoir "Some Boys" (1970) focused entirely on the boys he had met around the world, while working as a foreign correspondent.
Genre: MM / Memoir
The World, the Flesh and Myself by Michael Davidson (1962)
In the heyday of the foreign correspondent, Michael Davidson traveled the globe and campaigned against oppression and injustice. He joined the Berlin communists against Hitler, crossed wartime Morocco in Arab disguise, and opposed the British authorities in Malaya and Cyprus. Twice sent to prison for his sexuality, he bravely wrote in 1962 Life Story Of A Lover Of Boys. This autobiography, praised by Arthur Koestler and James Cameron, is a classic memoir of gay life in the first half of the century.
Some Boys by Michael Davidson (1969)
Some Boys is the 1969 sequel to Michael Davidson’s The World, the Flesh and Myself which was previously published in 1962. The earlier work was described by Arthur Koestler as the "twofold story of a courageous and lovable person’s struggle to come to terms with his Grecian heresy and of a brilliant journalist’s fight against colonial jingoism" and it scandalized the "respectable" world with its opening sentence: "This is the life history of a lover of boys".
Davidson’s sequel is still more revealing. Some Boys is a fond memoir of the author’s young friends across four decades and as many continents: from Marrakech to Saigon, Ischia to Lahore. Written with the discernment and observation of a brilliant journalist, these recollections combine erotic intenseness with an unerring personal empathy, and show throughout a keen and sensitive perception for the diversity of international customs and culture in the middle twentieth century — much of which is now gone forever.
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