Paul Potts (writer)

This article is about the author of Dante Called You Beatrice. For the British tenor, see Paul Potts. For the genocidal leader of Cambodia, see Pol Pot.

Paul Hugh Howard Potts (19 July 1911 – 26 August 1990), a British-born poet who lived in British Columbia in his youth,[1][2] was the author of Dante Called You Beatrice (1960), a memoir of unrequited love. One of the women treated in the memoir was Jean Hore, who married the writer Philip O'Connor but ended up confined as a schizophrenic for over fifty years until her death.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Paul Potts, Dante Called You Beatrice, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960
  2. ^ Potts is often called a Canadian, for example by Ronald Caplan in George Orwell's Friend which has him "born in British Columbia", but other sources - including the Times obituary - give his birthplace as Datchet in the UK.
  3. ^ Paul Potts, Dante Called You Beatrice, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960
  4. ^ "- Happily Never After, or, the Rubbish Tower - New Partisan - New Partisan".
  5. ^ Quentin and Philip: A Double Portrait, Andrew Barrow, Pan Books