[1] Thompson was born in New London, Connecticut, and educated at Harvard University.
[citation needed] Subsequently, he published little and virtually disappeared from literary circles; a few poems were taken by magazines.
[3] Raised Catholic, he returned to Catholicism, which led his partner Philip Trower to convert, starting in 1952.
After this a priest gave the couple permission to continue living together but as celibates.
This arrangement, celibacy but living with a male partner in the 1950s, has been remarked upon by both gay and Catholic critics of his work.