Secret historian : the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Spring, Justin, 1962- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Steward, Samuel M. 1900-1999 Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. Poets, American > 20th century > Biography. Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography. Gay authors > United States > Biography. College teachers > Illinois > Chicago > Biography. Tattoo artists > New York (State) > New York > Biography. Sexology > Research > United States > History > 20th century. Pornography > United States > History > 20th century. Authors, American. College teachers. Gay authors. Novelists, American. Poets, American. Pornography. Sexology > Research. Tattoo artists. Illinois > Chicago. New York (State) > New York. United States. Biographies. History. Biography.
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Table of 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.