The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward: Recollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay Life

by Samuel M. Steward

Book Overview

On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909-93) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began to compose a remarkable autobiography. No one but his closest friends knew the many different identities he had performed during his life: as Samuel Steward, he had been a popular university professor of English; as Phil Sparrow, an accomplished tattoo artist; as Ward Stames, John McAndrews, and Donald Bishop,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022654141X
• ISBN13: 9780226541419
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"