Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade

by Justin Spring

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374281343
• ISBN13: 9780374281342
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"