While his personal life was a bit out of the ordinary, some of his writing was wonderful!
I found him pedantic and boring. He even managed to turn the Clutter murders into a twisted yawnfest with his inflated argle-bargle. Besides, he was a lisping fag "embraced" by the pretensia, and those facts alone handicapped him in my world. He would have had to have been a much better writer than he was to overcome those defects.