Secret historian: the life and times of samuel steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade - Justin Spring

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• Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M.
• Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the 20th century. 2010 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M.
• Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century.
• An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B.
• Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secret sex life from childhood on, and documented these experiences in brilliantly vivid (and often very funny) detail.
• After leaving the world of academe to become Phil Sparrow, a tattoo artist on Chicago's notorious South State Street, Steward worked closely with Alfred Kinsey on his landmark sex research.
• During the early 1960s, Steward changed his name and identity once again, this time to write exceptionally literate, upbeat pro-homosexual pornography under the name of Phil Andros.
• Until today he has been known only as Phil Sparrow--but an extraordinary archive of his papers, lost since his death in 1993, has provided Justin Spring with the material for an exceptionally compassionate and brilliantly illuminating life-and-times biography.
• More than merely the story of one remarkable man, Secret Historian is a moving portrait of homosexual life long before Stonewall and gay liberation. 2010 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M.
• Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century.