[WT Sharpe]

Just finished Hiding in Plain Sight: The Secret Life of Raymond Burr by Michael Seth Starr.

There was so much more to Raymond Burr than I ever imagined. What a bundle of contradictions. Here was a man who at once was generous, greedy, conniving, loyal, gregarious, tyrannical, brave, and a consummate liar. I found myself sometimes loving and sometimes hating him, occasionally both on the same page. He was a widower twice to women who never existed, and tragically lost a non-existent son to leukemia. (By a strange coincidence, Red Skelton lost a real-life son to the same disease.) He did marry one real-life flesh and blood woman, however. On January 10, 1948 he married Isabella Ward. The marriage lasted less than a year, and neither at the time would speak of what led to the divorce. His valiant record of service in the armed forces was a pure fiction, as he was never in the military, but he did not hesitate to put himself in harm's way to entertain the troops in Vietnam.

And on a personal note, I can't help but wonder what my mother would have thought had she lived long enough to learn that one of her macho heroes was gay and involved in a long-term relationship with another man?

Excellent bio; one I highly recommend.