Description: Hardcover with dustjacket as issued, First Edition SECRET HISTORIAN by Justin Spring (author of the Obscene Diary of Sam Steward)the life and times of Samuel Shepard (1910-1993) aka Phil Andros, Philip Sparrow English professor, tattoo artist & sexual renegade Justin Spring’s biography of Steward is absolutely indispensable. Using the troves of detailed records that Steward kept of his own life, which were carefully preserved after his death by his executor Michael Williams, as well as archives scattered around the country, Spring has woven together a compellingly readable and insightful narrative. What an interesting life led by this complex man. / Contents: "Wild -- hog wild" -- Teres atque rotundus -- The Chicago novel -- "The navy has always had an attraction for me" -- Sobriety and after -- Kinsey and company -- Living in dreams -- Writing lynes -- "A kind of obscene diary, actually" -- "Mr. Chips of the tattoo world" -- The Kothmann affair -- The parting -- "Pleasure doesn't really make one happy" -- Kris and Kreis -- "Payments to hustlers" -- Masters and slaves -- Phil Andros, $STUD -- A new life in Oakland -- "From the brow to Zeus" -- Dear Sammy -- "Porte after stormie seas" -- Afterword: The Steward papers. Drawn from the secret diaries and journals of novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, this is a 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, documenting his experiences in vivid (and often very funny) detail. After leaving academe to become tattoo artist Phil Sparrow, Steward worked closely with Alfred Kinsey on his landmark sex research. During the early 1960s, Steward changed his identity once again, this time to write exceptionally literate, upbeat homosexual pornography as Phil Andros. An archive of his papers, lost since his death in 1993, has provided biographer Justin Spring with the material for an illuminating life-and-times biography. More than merely the story of one remarkable man, this is a moving portrait of gay life long before gay liberation.--From publisher description. COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNT, photographs books magazines added at a reduced rate We carry those that we ourselves like and believe in -- that we think will excite, enchant, and endure. 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Book Title: Secret Historian
Ex Libris: No
Book Series: Gay Pulp
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Item Length: 9in.
Type: LGBT Arts
Literary Movement: Modernism
Language: English
Item Height: 0.6in.
Author: Justin Spring
Features: True First Edition
Genre: History, Literary Collections, Social Science
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: United States / 20th Century, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, American / General, Essays
Item Width: 5.9in.
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
