Here Samuel Steward retraces many of the twists and turns his amazing life has followed. He grew up in small-town Ohio in the early years of the century, became a college professor in Chicago and traveled to Europe to meet famous writers. He knew Lord Alfred Douglas, André Gide, Thomas Mann and Thornton Wilder. Best of all, he describes his long friendship with Gertrude St
Here Samuel Steward retraces many of the twists and turns his amazing life has followed. He grew up in small-town Ohio in the early years of the century, became a college professor in Chicago and traveled to Europe to meet famous writers. He knew Lord Alfred Douglas, André Gide, Thomas Mann and Thornton Wilder. Best of all, he describes his long friendship with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas and his visits to them in Bilignin and Paris. His next metamorphosis was as 'Phil Sparrow,' tattoo artist and 'unofficial collaborator' with Dr. Alfred Kinsey. Concurrently he became 'Phil Andros,' narrator of the gamey adventures of a well-endowed hustler through six novels and many short stories. Now he looks back over his several careers, recalls in memory his favorite lovers, and counsels the cultivation of detachment.
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Having read Dustin Springs biography 'Secret Historian', this book is a perfect completion considering Stewards own views and thoughts.
Surprisingly, it reveals that S.M. Steward must have had a far more sentient nature than one could assume regarding Spring's approach.
At it's climax when Steward, considering himself unable for a love-based realtionship throughout his entire life, makes good this loss by concentrating all his love on a little Dachshund dog, for which he had been coincidentally ch
Having read Dustin Springs biography 'Secret Historian', this book is a perfect completion considering Stewards own views and thoughts.
Surprisingly, it reveals that S.M. Steward must have had a far more sentient nature than one could assume regarding Spring's approach.
At it's climax when Steward, considering himself unable for a love-based realtionship throughout his entire life, makes good this loss by concentrating all his love on a little Dachshund dog, for which he had been coincidentally chosen to take care of.
Compared with Spring's view,
Chapters from an Autobiography
is far more touching, though it contains but little extracts of his eventful life bearing a vanguard role.
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