Secret historian : the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade

Author

Spring, Justin, 1962-

Title

Secret historian : the life and times of Samuel Steward, professor, tattoo artist, and sexual renegade / Justin Spring.

Format

Book

Edition

1st ed.

Published

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

Description

xv, 478 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

URL

<Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1003/2009043086-b.html
<Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1003/2009043086-d.html

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• "Wild
• hog wild"
• Teres atque rotundus
• The Chicago novel
• "The navy has always had an attraction for me"
• Sobriety and after
• Kinsey and company
• Living in dreams
• Writing Lynes
• "A kind of obscene diary, actually"
• "Mr. Chips of the tattoo world"
• The Kothmann affair
• The parting
• "Pleasure doesn't really make one happy"
• Kris and Kreis
• "Payments to hustlers"
• Masters and slaves
• Phil Andr0s, $TUD
• A new life in Oakland
• "From the brow of Zeus"
• Dear Sammy
• "Porte after stormie seas"
• Afterward: the Steward papers.

Subject headings

Steward, Samuel M.

Kinsey subjects

Biographies of men.
Biographies of homosexuals--Male.
Homosexuals sex behavior--Male.

ISBN

9780374281342
0374281343