14 Facts About Eugene Walter

Gayfer died in 1938, again leaving Eugene Walter to fend for himself.

Eugene Walter relocated to New York City afterward and became a resident of Greenwich Village during the post-WWII years.

Eugene Walter then gained transatlantic passage of a freighter carrying ice cream to Europe during the late 1940s.

Eugene Walter lived in Paris during much of the 1950s, where he helped launch the Paris Review, living across the street from the publication's office and contributing to the earliest issues with text, art and interviews.

Eugene Walter died on March 29,1998, of liver cancer at the University of South Alabama Medical Center.

Eugene Walter's wake was held at the old Scottish Rite Temple, where attendees painted and wrote their goodbyes on his closed casket.

Rota and Eugene Walter teamed again for the song "What Is a Youth" for Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet.

Eugene Walter played the role of the priest in The House with Laughing Windows.

Eugene Walter's books include Monkey Poems, The Byzantine Riddle and The Untidy Pilgrim, a novel recently reprinted by the University of Alabama Press.

Eugene Walter compiled several cookbooks: Delectable Dishes From Termite Hall and the bestselling American Cooking: Southern Style, part of Time-Life's Foods of the World series.

Eugene Walter contributed to numerous magazines, including Food Arts, Gourmet, Old Mobile and Harper's Bazaar.

Eugene Walter's essay "Front Porches" is an evocative portrait of Mobile in 1929:.

Eugene Walter died in Mobile of liver cancer in 1998.

Eugene Walter: Last of the Bohemians is a documentary by Waterfront Pictures.