The elder of two children, Teo Davis was born in Paris. His father, William Nathan Davis, was “a wealthy patron of the arts from Indianapolis and a graduate of Yale". His mother, Anne Bakewell Davis of Baltimore, was a distant descendant of
John James Audubon, the French-born ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. Davis grew up in
Málaga, Spain in his family villa,
La Cónsula. During the summer of 1959, eight-year-old Davis befriended author and Nobel laureate
Ernest Hemingway, who was staying at his home. The story of their friendship was told in the book
Looking for Hemingway; Spain, The Bullfights and a Final Rite of Passage. When he was thirteen, Davis left Spain to attend
West Downs School in Winchester, Hampshire, and then
Eton College in Windsor, England, from which he graduated in 1970. Davis then headed to America after failing to gain acceptance into the
University of Oxford. ==Career==