Teo Davis
{{short description|American writer}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Teo Davis
| birth_name = Timothy Logan Bakewell Davis
| image = TeoHemingwayLaConsula1959.jpg
| caption = Teo Davis and Ernest Hemingway at La Cónsula, 1959
| birth_date = {{birth date|1951|4|18}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|03|01|1951|04|18}}
| occupation = Writer
| spouse = Diana Radway
| children = 0
| education = West Downs School
Eton College {{small|(1970)}}
| period = 1973–2016
}}
Timothy Logan Bakewell Davis (born April 18, 1951) was an American writer who worked in Hollywood from the mid-1970s to his death.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/09/archives/timothy-ll-davis-to-wed-diana-radway-in-february.html|title=Timothy L. L. Davis to Wed Diana Radway in February|work=The New York Times |date=December 9, 1979|via=NYTimes.com}}
Early life and education
The elder of two children, Teo Davis was born in Paris. His father, William Nathan Davis, was “a wealthy patron of the arts from Indianapolis and a graduate of Yale".{{Cite web|url=https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/hemingway-ernest-autograph-letter-signed-5754405-details.aspx|title=Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961). Hemingway Signed Letter (|website=www.christies.com}} His mother, Anne Bakewell Davis of Baltimore, was a distant descendant of John James Audubon, the French-born ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=prEzDQAAQBAJ&q=John+James+Audubon+anne+bakewell+davis&pg=PR18|title=Looking for Hemingway: Spain, the Bullfights, and a Final Rite of Passage|first=Tony|last=Castro|date=November 16, 2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781493018222|via=Google Books}}
Davis grew up in Málaga, Spain in his family villa, La Cónsula. Castro, Tony (2016). [https://books.google.com/books?id=6kcljwEACAAJ Looking for Hemingway; Spain, The Bullfights and a Final Rite of Passage], Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 13.
During the summer of 1959, eight-year-old Davis befriended author and Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway, who was staying at his home. The story of their friendship was told in the book Looking for Hemingway; Spain, The Bullfights and a Final Rite of Passage.Castro, Tony (2016). [https://books.google.com/books/about/Looking_for_Hemingway.html?id=6kcljwEACAAJ Looking for Hemingway; Spain, The Bullfights and a Final Rite of Passage], Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
When he was thirteen, Davis left Spain to attend West Downs School in Winchester, Hampshire, and then Eton College in Windsor, England, from which he graduated in 1970.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6kcljwEACAAJ|title=Looking for Hemingway: Spain, the Bullfights, and a Final Rite of Passage|first=Tony|last=Castro|date=March 17, 2016|publisher=Globe Pequot Press|isbn=9781493018215|via=Google Books}} Davis then headed to America after failing to gain acceptance into the University of Oxford.https://teo-davis.muchloved.com/Lifestories/35417705, paragraph 13
Career
In 1973, at the age of 21, Davis arrived in Texas, becoming a reporter for the state's largest newspaper, the Houston Chronicle. Although Davis had no reporting experience nor could he even type, he had an important Texas connection who arranged the job; Barefoot Sanders, former counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson.Castro, Tony (2013). [https://books.google.com/books?id=NffWM7rfD88C&pg=PR11 The Prince of South Waco: American Dreams and Great Expectations] p. xi
Personal life
Teo Davis married Diana Radway in 1980 in Chelsea, London,{{Cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8753/images/ons_m19801az-0955? |access-date=2025-05-29 |website=www.ancestry.com}} and their engagement was announced in The New York Times. However, they divorced in 1981.[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dllindiv=1&dbid=1141&h=784777&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=HrS16&_phstart=successSource California Divorce Record Archived at Ancestry.com]
Death
Davis's worsening addiction to cocaine, heroin, crystal meth and other drugs became apparent to his friends in the mid-1980s; he was arrested several times for possession, and eventually died March 1, 2016 due complications with diabetes and heart failure caused by his struggles with substance abuse.[https://teo-davis.muchloved.com Memorial for Teo Davis, 2001-2016]
Davis' longtime friend, Tracy Tynan, wrote: "Throughout his life he struggled with substance abuse, but for the last two years he had been sober. Sadly, his addictions had left him with a myriad of health problems and on March 1, his heart gave out. He was a funny, smart, infuriating, unique guy. He will be greatly missed."[https://teo-davis.muchloved.com/Lifestories/20184918 Memorial for Teo Davis, 2001-2016: Lifestories]
External Links
- The Story about [https://hemingwayswelt.de/teo-davis-und-ernest-hemingway/ Teo Davis and Ernest Hemingway]
- Memorial to [https://teo-davis.muchloved.com/ Teo Davis]
References
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Category:Writers from Los Angeles