About the author
PHILLIP WARD is a consultant and researcher, curator, multimedia artist, photographer, poet, and writer. His writings, photographs, and box constructions have appeared in an array of magazines, journals, and books; the internet; as well as group exhibitions in New York and Japan. Mr. Ward was Quentin Crisp's personal assistant, dresser, typist, editor, and companion during the 1980s and until Mr. Crisp's death in 1999. Mr. Ward is the archivist and curator of the Crisperanto: The Quentin Crisp Archives (crisperanto.org); and is literary and estate executor of Mr. Crisp's estate, and editor of Mr. Crisp’s final book The Last Word (co-edited with Laurence Watts). It was through his friendship with Quentin Crisp that Mr. Ward was introduced to Martin Fishman and his photography. Phillip Ward was born in Paintsville, Kentucky, and lives in Manhattan.