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

by Justin Spring

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374533024
• ISBN13: 9780374533021
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.7" x 8.3"