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The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward: Recollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay Life
Author: Samuel Steward
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On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (190993) 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, a prolific essayist in the first European gay magazines as Phil Andros, the author of a series of popular pornographic gay novels during the 1960s and 1970s. Steward had also moved in the circles of Gertrude Stein, Thornton Wilder, and Alfred Kinsey, among many other notable figures of the twentieth century. And, as a compulsive record keeper, he had maintained a meticulous card-file index throughout his life that documented his 4,500 sexual encounters with more than 800 men. The story of this life would undoubtedly have been a sensation if it had reached publication. But after finishing a 110,000-word draft in 1979, Steward lost interest in the project and subsequently published only a slim volume of selections from his manuscript. In The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward, Jeremy Mulderig has integrated Stewards truncated published text with the text of the original manuscript to create the first extended version of Stewards autobiography to appear in printthe first sensational, fascinating, and ultimately enlightening story of his many lives told in his own words. The product of a rigorous line-by-line comparison of these two sources and a thoughtful editing of their contents, Mulderigs thoroughly annotated text is more complete and coherent than either source alone while also remaining faithful to Stewards style and voice, to his engaging self-deprecation and his droll sense of humor. Compellingly readable and often unexpectedly funny, this newly discovered story of a gay life full of wildly improbablebut nonetheless trueevents is destined to become a landmark queer autobiography from the twentieth century. **
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On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (190993) 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, a prolific essayist in the first European gay magazines as Phil Andros, the author of a series of popular pornographic gay novels during the 1960s and 1970s. Steward had also moved in the circles of Gertrude Stein, Thornton Wilder, and Alfred Kinsey, among many other notable figures of the twentieth century. And, as a compulsive record keeper, he had maintained a meticulous card-file index throughout his life that documented his 4,500 sexual encounters with more than 800 men. The story of this life would undoubtedly have been a sensation if it had reached publication. But after finishing a 110,000-word draft in 1979, Steward lost interest in the project and subsequently published only a slim volume of selections from his manuscript. In The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward, Jeremy Mulderig has integrated Stewards truncated published text with the text of the original manuscript to create the first extended version of Stewards autobiography to appear in printthe first sensational, fascinating, and ultimately enlightening story of his many lives told in his own words. The product of a rigorous line-by-line comparison of these two sources and a thoughtful editing of their contents, Mulderigs thoroughly annotated text is more complete and coherent than either source alone while also remaining faithful to Stewards style and voice, to his engaging self-deprecation and his droll sense of humor. Compellingly readable and often unexpectedly funny, this newly discovered story of a gay life full of wildly improbablebut nonetheless trueevents is destined to become a landmark queer autobiography from the twentieth century. **
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