Samuel Steward: 3 books
The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward
Recollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909–93) 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,...
Philip Sparrow Tells All
Lost Essays by Samuel Steward, Writer, Professor, Tattoo Artist
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Samuel Steward (1909–93) was an English professor, a tattoo artist for the Hells Angels, a sexual adventurer who shared the considerable scope of his experiences with Alfred Kinsey, and a prolific writer whose publications ranged from scholarly articles to gay erotica (the latter appearing under...
Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos
A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos!
In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher...