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Secret Historian

Name: Secret Historian
Author: Justin Spring

The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade

Justin Spring,

498 pages
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Secret Historian

The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade

Justin Spring,

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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.

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Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year

2010

ISBN

9781429932943

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Social Science Biographies

Index

Social Sciences

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Also by Justin Spring
Title Page
Epigraph
Contents
Preface
1. “Wild—Hog Wild”
2. Teres Atque Rotundus
3. The Chicago Novel
4. “The navy has always had an attraction for me”
5. Sobriety and After
6. Kinsey and Company
7. Living in Dreams
8. Writing Lynes
9. “A kind of obscene diary, actually”
10. “Mr. Chips of the Tattoo World”
11. The Kothmann Affair
12. The Parting
13. “Pleasure doesn’t really make one happy”
14. Kris and Kreis
15. “Payments to hustlers”
16. Masters and Slaves
17. Phil Andros, $TUD
18. A New Life in Oakland
19. “From the brow of Zeus”
20. Dear Sammy
21. “Porte after stormie seas”
Afterword: The Steward Papers
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Copyright