![]() ![]() Yet in his afterlife, Ackerley’s star is hitched to a hound named Tulip, the eponymous figure of his 1956 classic of canine lit, My Dog Tulip. ![]() ![]() His oeuvre was skimpy but notable, including a lively fictionalized travelogue of India ( Hindoo Holiday) and a scabrously powerful (and often quite funny) memoir of his father’s closeted life of bigamy and homosexuality ( My Father and Myself). True, Ackerley, who died in 1967, was known for many memorable things during his life: He was a highly revered editor of the BBC’s publication The Listener an openly gay fixture of the London literary scene a friend and confidant of E.M. But very few writers have been as associated with their mutts as J.R. Dogs have been a part of Western literature ever since Argos expired at the sight of his returning master, Odysseus. ![]()
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