Chapters from an Autobiography

By Samuel M. Steward

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912516593
• ISBN13: 9780912516592
• Release Date: June 1981
• Publisher: Grey Fox Pr
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the most fascinating autobiographies I've ever read.

I couldn't put this book down; and neither could anyone else to whom I've recommended it. Steward led a most unusual and broad life, having been a professor of English, an extremely popular underground author of homosexual erotic and pornographic stories, a professional tattoo artist, a co-worker of Kinsey's, and a fanatic admirer of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to whom he became a devoted friend. The book is superbly written, and one only regrets that it is so short, and that Steward (who died a few years ago [not of AIDS]) did not live to expand it into a longer, more detailed account of his extraordinary life. Fascinating and very engagingly written; but one must caution the more prudish reader that he DOES speak frankly of his romantic and sexual involvements, though by no means in a coarse manner.