Already an avid autograph hound, Steward went to Valentino's hotel room, knocked on the door, got the autograph, gave the silent film star a blow job, and took home a snippet of his pubic hair. Not m In 1926, when he was 17 years old, Samuel Steward learned that Rudolph Valentino was checked into a downtown Columbus, Ohio, hotel under his real name, Rudolph Guglielmi. ![]() That object now resides in a private collection in Rome. He kept the hair all his life in a monstrance bought at an antique store. In 1926, when he was 17 years old, Samuel Steward learned that Rudolph Valentino was checked into a downtown Columbus, Ohio, hotel under his real name, Rudolph Guglielmi. More than merely the story of one remarkable man, The Secret Historian is a moving portrait of homosexual life long before Stonewall and gay liberation.more Until today he has been known only as Phil Sparrow-but an extraordinary archive of his papers, lost since his death in 1983, has provided Justin Spring with the material for an exceptionally compassionate and brilliantly illuminating life-and-times biography. During the early 1960s, Steward changed his name and identity once again, this time to write exceptionally literate, upbeat pro-homosexual pornography under the name of Phil Andros. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secret sex life from childhood on, and documented these experiences in brilliantly vivid (and often very funny) detail.Īfter leaving the world of academe to become Phil Sparrow, a tattoo artist on Chicago’s notorious South State Street, Steward worked closely with Alfred Kinsey on his landmark sex research. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Steward, The Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secretĭrawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. ![]() Steward died in 1993 on New Year’s Eve.Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward moved in the 1960s to the San Francisco Bay Area, and under the pen name Phil Andros, he wrote gay erotica, beginning with Stud in 1966. After leaving academia in the mid-1950s, Steward made his living as a tattoo artist until 1970. In 1949, Steward met the eminent sex researcher Alfred Kinsey and became an unofficial collaborator in Kinsey’s Institute for Sex Research, including introducing Kinsey to many sexually active male subjects and donating sexually themed materials to his archive. ![]() His historical novel Parisian Lives was published in 1984. He also wrote Chapters from an Autobiography (1981), a brief memoir that recounted his encounters with other literary figures, including Thornton Wilder, Lord Alfred Douglas, and Thomas Mann. Toklas (1977), and two mysteries that portrayed Stein and Toklas as detectives, Murder Is Murder Is Murder (1985) and The Caravaggio Shawl (1989). Toklas in 1937, and his friendship with them inspired him to write the memoir, Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Steward was introduced to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. From 1946 to 1948, he was an editor of the World Book Encyclopedia, and subsequently taught at DePaul University from 1948 to 1954. Steward then moved to Chicago and became an associate professor of English at Loyola University from 1936 to 1946. His 1936 comic novel Angels on the Bough received critical recognition but also prompted the State College of Washington at Pullman to dismiss him from his teaching position because of the book’s sympathetic portrayal of a prostitute. Steward taught at several colleges and universities throughout his early career. He was born in Woodsfield, OH, and earned a BA, MA, and finally a PhD in English in 1932 at Ohio State University. Photographed by Robert Giard in the late 1980s, Steward was a writer and English professor, who later became an influential tattoo artist. Philip Sparrow Tells All (2015) is a collection of Steward’s essays from 1944 to 1949, published in the Illinois Dental Journal under one of the author’s pseudonyms. On the occasion of the recent publication of Philip Sparrow Tells All: Lost Essays by Samuel Steward, Writer, Professor, Tattoo Artist, we are pleased to feature Samuel Steward (1909–1993) as the January portrait of the month.
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