Background
Pole was born in Los Los Angeles His father Reginald was a highly regarded Shakespearean actor. His parents divorced when he was a boy, and his mother married Lloyd Wright, a son of noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Pole was born in Los Los Angeles His father Reginald was a highly regarded Shakespearean actor. His parents divorced when he was a boy, and his mother married Lloyd Wright, a son of noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Harvard University; University of California, Berkeley.
Pole played both the guitar and viola, and received a degree in music from Harvard University in 1940. During World World War II he performed in United Service Organizations shows with Jane Lloyd-Jones, to whom he was briefly married. The Broadway run of The Duchess of Malfi, in which Pole had a supporting role, had just ended in 1947 when he met Nin.
They met in an elevator as both were en route to a party given by an heir to the Guggenheim fortune.
He was 28 and she was 44 at the time. In her diary entry that evening, Nin noted his emotional sensitivity and knowledge of Eastern philosophies and concluded the entry with "Danger! He is probably homosexual."
Nin agreed to do so, but told Guiler she was accompanying a friend on a drive to Las Vegas.
Pole received a degree in forestry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and joined the United States. Forest Service. He and Nin lived a rustic life in a cabin in the Sierra Madre, where Nin introduced herself as Mistress
Anaïs Pole even though she was still married to Guiler.
Nin and Pole were married by a justice of the peace in Quartzsite, Arizona, on March 17, 1955. Nin remained married to Guiler, citing his decades of financial support, but spent her final years with Pole. The house was designed by Pole"s half brother and Frank Lloyd Wright"s grandson, Eric Lloyd Wright.
Pole described his experience for the United Kingdom"s Daily Telegraph in 1998, saying
I was jealous, yes.
But I played the same games as Hugo, pretending to believe her. In a way, I did not care.
My idea of marriage is different. We had a wonderful, deep relationship, and that is what counted.
I was not interested in conventional women or in conventional marriage.
Pole suffered a stroke in 2006, and died in his sleep two weeks later, at his home in Los Los Angeles Foreign his obituary in the New York Times Nin"s biographer, Deirdre Bair, told a reporter
He was sort of a great cipher. He was stunningly handsome.
Incredibly shy.
And just very incredibly self-effacing. was his star: everything radiated around her, and he loved being in her background.