photographs. The first, titled Little Me, recounts the escapades through life and love of glamour girl Belle Poitrine "as told to Patrick Dennis." His wife, Louise, appeared as Pixie Portnoy in the book's photographic illustrations, which included their children and an employee as well. The second "bio," titled First Lady (1964), is the life story of Martha Dinwiddie Butterfield, oblivious wife of a robber baron who "stole" the U.S. presidency for 30 days at the turn of the century. Personal life On December 30, 1948, Dennis married Louise Stickney, with whom he had two children. He led a double life as a conventional husband and father, and as a bisexual in later life, becoming a well-known participant in Greenwich Village's gay scene. Later years and death Dennis's work fell out of fashion in the 1970s, and all of his books went out of print. In his later years, he left writing to become a butler, a job that his friends reported he enjoyed. At one time, he worked for Ray Kroc, the CEO of McDonald's. Although he was, at long last, using his real name, he was in essence working yet again under a pseudonym; his employers had no inkling that their butler, Tanner, was the famous author Patrick Dennis. He died from pancreatic cancer in Manhattan at the age of 55, on November 6, 1976. At the turn of the 21st century, there was a resurgence of interest in his work, and subsequently many of his novels are once again available. His son, Dr. Michael Tanner, wrote introductions to several reissues of his father's books. Some of Dennis's original manuscripts are held at Yale University, others at Boston University. Bibliography Virginia Rowans Rowans, Virginia (1953). Oh What a Wonderful Wedding!, New York: Crowell Rowans, Virginia (1954). House Party, New York: Crowell Rowans, Virginia (1956). The Loving Couple: His (and Her) Story, New York: Crowell Rowans, Virginia (1961). Love and Mrs. Sargent, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy Patrick Dennis Dennis, Patrick (1955). Auntie Mame, New York: Vanguard Press Dennis, Patrick (1956). Guestward, Ho! by Barbara C. Hooton, as indiscreetly confided to Patrick Dennis, New York: Vanguard Press Erskine, Dorothy, and Patrick Dennis (1957). The Pink Hotel, New York: Putnam Dennis, Patrick (1958). Around the World with Auntie Mame, New York: New American Library Dennis, Patrick (1961). Little Me: The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and