Washed up in wartime, Britten, his friend and romantic obsession W H Auden, the tedious waif-like poet and novelist Carson McCullers, and stripper turned thriller writer Gypsy Rose Lee shared a bohemian squat in a dilapidated row house in Brooklyn Heights from where they tried to influence the US's entry into the war with pacifist writings and socialite dinner parties.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:17AM on September 4, 2016