Lord Alfred Douglas Academy" and later repudiated by Douglas), "Oscar Wilde: A Summing Up" (1940) and two memoirs, "The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas" (1929) and "Without Apology" (1938). Douglas also was the editor of a literary journal, "The Academy", from 1907 to 1910 and during this time he had an affair with artist Romaine Brooks, who was also bisexual (the main love of her life, Natalie Clifford Barney, also had an affair with Wilde's niece Dorothy and even, in 1901, with Douglas's future wife Olive Custance, the year before the couple married). In 1920 he edited and write many articles for the
Whose Body? gave me pleasure to spend his fortune for him. When I was dissatisfied with my single unfurnished room I took a luxurious flat for him in Piccadilly. ... I can heartily recommend this inexpensive way of furnishing to all who are discontented with their incomes". In his 2017 overview of the classic crime genre, Martin Edwards notes that Lord Peter Wimsey began his life as a fantasy figure, created "as a conscious act of escapism by young writer who was short of money and experiencing one unsatisfactory love affair after another". Whose Body? Whose Body? is a 1923 mystery novel