![]() ![]() Toklas in his Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. He also described his friendship with Stein and Alice B. He detailed these encounters, some of them sexual, in his brief memoir, Chapters from an Autobiography. ![]() During the 1937 trip, he also met with many other literary figures, including Thornton Wilder, Lord Alfred Douglas (the lover of Oscar Wilde), Thomas Mann, and André Gide. He paid visits to her rented country home in France during the summers of 19. Steward gained an introduction to Gertrude Stein in 1932 through his academic advisor Clarence Andrews, and so began a long correspondence with Stein which resulted in a warm friendship. From the mid-1930s until 1949 he was deeply alcoholic, but he managed to overcome his addiction to alcohol with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous. ![]() īorn into a Methodist household, Steward converted to Catholicism during his university years, but had long since abandoned the Catholic Church by the time he accepted his teaching position at Loyola. After leaving Loyola to help re-write the World Book Encyclopedia, he subsequently taught at DePaul University. He subsequently moved to Chicago, where he taught at Loyola University until 1946. In 1936 he was summarily dismissed from his second teaching position, at the State College of Washington (now Washington State University) at Pullman, as the result of his sympathetic portrayal of a prostitute in his well-reviewed comic novel Angels on the Bough. His first year-long post was as an instructor of English in 1934 at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. He taught English at OSU from 1932 until 1934 as a university fellow. Steward was born in Woodsfield, Ohio, and began attending Ohio State University in Columbus in 1927. He later moved to the San Francisco Bay area, where he spent the late 1960s as the official tattoo artist of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Navy's Great Lakes Naval Training Station (as well as gang members and street people) out of a tattoo parlor on South State Street. He lived most of his adult life in Chicago, where he tattooed sailor-trainees from the U.S. Throughout his life, he kept extensive secret diaries, journals and statistics of his sex life. Compellingly readable and often unexpectedly funny, this newly discovered story of a gay life full of wildly improbable-but nonetheless true-events is destined to become a landmark queer autobiography from the twentieth century.Samuel Morris Steward (J– December 31, 1993), also known as Phil Andros, Phil Sparrow, and many other pseudonyms, was an American poet, novelist, and university professor who left the world of academia to become a tattoo artist and pornographer. The product of a rigorous line-by-line comparison of these two sources and a thoughtful editing of their contents, Mulderig's thoroughly annotated text is more complete and coherent than either source alone while also remaining faithful to Steward's style and voice, to his engaging self-deprecation and his droll sense of humor. In The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward, Jeremy Mulderig has integrated Steward's truncated published text with the text of the original manuscript to create the first extended version of Steward's autobiography to appear in print-the first sensational, fascinating, and ultimately enlightening story of his many lives told in his own words. 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. The story of this life would undoubtedly have been a sensation if it had reached publication. ![]() 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. Steward had also moved in the circles of Gertrude Stein, Thornton Wilder, and Alfred Kinsey, among many other notable figures of the twentieth century. 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. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 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. ![]()
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