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Spring Justin - Secret Historian The Life And Times Of Samuel Steward Professor Tattoo Artist And Sexual Renegade - Paperback
Spring Justin - Secret Historian The Life And Times Of Samuel Steward Professor Tattoo Artist And Sexual Renegade - Paperback
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Description: 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 Justin Spring's Secret Historian is a moving portrait of homosexual life long before Stonewall and gay liberation.
Title: Secret Historian The Life And Times Of Samuel Steward Professor Tattoo Artist And Sexual Renegade
Author(s): Spring Justin
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374533021
Pages: 512 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/19/2011
Description: 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 Justin Spring's Secret Historian is a moving portrait of homosexual life long before Stonewall and gay liberation.
Title: Secret Historian The Life And Times Of Samuel Steward Professor Tattoo Artist And Sexual Renegade
Author(s): Spring Justin
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374533021
Pages: 512 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/19/2011
