Editing Stephen Tennant (section)

==Writing==
For most of his life, Tennant tried to start or finish a novel – ''Lascar: A Story You Must Forget''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions-visiting/special-exhibitions/stephen-tennant-work-progress|title=Stephen Tennant: Work in Progress|website=Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - Yale University|date=14 December 2018 |access-date=12 April 2020}}</ref> It is popularly believed that he spent the last 17 years of his life in bed at the house he inherited from his parents, Wilsford House<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1131008|desc=Wilsford House|access-date=16 March 2023}}</ref> at [[Wilsford cum Lake]], Wiltshire, which he had redecorated by [[Syrie Maugham]]. 

Though undoubtedly idle, he was not truly lethargic: he made several visits to the United States and Italy, and developed many new friendships. His later reputation as a [[recluse]] became increasingly true only towards the last years of his life. Yet even then, his life was not uneventful: he became landlord to [[V. S. Naipaul]], who immortalised Tennant in his novel ''[[The Enigma of Arrival]]''.