Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
著者: Justin Spring
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| Hardcover: | 496 ページ |
| 出版社: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 出版日: | 2010年8月17日 |
| ISBN: | 0374281343 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780374281342 |
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内容説明
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 from childhood on, and documented these experiences in brilliantly vivid (and often very funny) detail.
After leaving the world of academe to become Phil Sparrow, a tattoo artist on Chicago’s notorious South State Street, Steward worked closely with Alfred Kinsey on his landmark sex research. During the early 1960s, Steward changed his name and identity once again, this time to write exceptionally literate, upbeat pro-homosexual pornography under the name of Phil Andros.
Until today he has been known only as Phil Sparrow—but an extraordinary archive of his papers, lost since his death in 1993, has provided Justin Spring with the material for an exceptionally compassionate and brilliantly illuminating life-and-times biography. More than merely the story of one remarkable man, Secret Historian is a moving portrait of homosexual life long before Stonewall and gay liberation.
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: Craig A. Seymour Chicago, IL - 2010年9月3日A great read!
The great achievement of this book is that it's so meticulously researched but also a wonderful read. A truly engaging account of a fascinating, singular life.
--Craig Seymour, author of All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C.
: Jim Coughenour San Francisco - 2010年9月2日Rescued from oblivion
I knew I was going to enjoy this biography from its first page. Spring writes, "I first came across Steward's name in the gay pulp fiction archive and database at the John Hay Special Collections Library at Brown University..." The gay pulp fiction archive?! Immediately readers know they're in for a ride.
Samuel Steward (aka Donald Bishop, Thomas Cave, John McAndrews, Phil Sparrow, Ward Stames, Phil Andros) was a poet, novelist, Catholic English professor, tattoo artist, gay pornographer, friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice Tolkas, and a key contributor to Alfred Kinsey's sex research. Justin Spring has rescued this astonishing character from oblivion, giving him the break he never got in what Steward described as "my happily wasted life."
This biography is definitely not for the gentle reader. Steward's prodigious sexual escapades from the 30s through the 80s made my few remaining hairs stand on end. Sailors, thugs, underage hustlers, Rudolph Valentino, Thorton Wilder, students, policemen, ex-cons, priests and one Hells Angel, scripted orgies, brutal S/M sessions: all were documented in his meticulous "Stud File." Almost despite himself, quiet little Steward was a defiant, transgressive artist to his core, surviving repression, literary rejection, AIDS, alcoholism and depression with a staggering sense of aplomb. One favorite example (that will only mean something to gay readers of a certain age): in his late 50s, Steward's favorite paid partner was "one very talented and extraordinarily good-looking hustler who later took the porn name of Johnny Hardin... Between late 1966 and 1970 Steward had sex with him 155 times." Now there is a fun fact to know and tell.
: Queequeg West Hollywood, CA - 2010年8月30日Fascinating & Well-researched Biography
This is a wonderful and important biographical work. Because of the historically risqué subject matter - fluid and often violent gay male sexuality, tattoo subculture, pornography - many such lives have been willfully forgotten or forcibly closeted by historians. However, with perseverance and a bit of luck, Justin Spring discovered and had unprecedented access to Samuel Stewart's personal archives. As a result we have this amazingly documented and fascinating life story. I only wish it had gone on for another 500 pages. Well done.
: Rick Whitaker New York, NY United States - 2010年8月30日A real revelation
Who knew? Thanks to Justin Spring we have a whole new real-life character from the 20th century. This is an excellent book.
: Nick Nicholson None - 2010年8月24日An extraordinary work
Spring,an exceptional biographer, has taken a look at a relatively unknown life, and through its exploration has revealed not only a life ardently lived, but one which illuminates the lives of so many others. I look forward to Spring's next work.
