Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger

by Elizabeth Findley Shores

Winner, 2023 Booker Worthern Literary Prize

For nearly a century, British expatriate Charles Joseph Finger (1867-1941) was best known as an award-winning author of children's literature. In Shared Secrets, Elizabeth Findley Shores relates Finger's untold story, exploring the secrets that connected the author to an international community of twentieth-century queer literati.

As a young man, Finger reveled in the easy homosociality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682261557
• ISBN13: 9781682261552
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"