RE: a recluse, a virulently xenophobic racist...
An all around fun guy.
“The kind of personality of someone who can liven up a party simply by leaving it.”
——Arthur C. Clarke on the American astronauts in the early space program.
*** a virulently xenophobic racist...***
Sounds like almost all normal people back in the 1920s. You should read John Russell’s short stories of the South Seas published at that time. The book THE LOST GOD is a good one, but if you are a faint heart better get ready for some racist names about the South Sea Islanders.