Samuel Steward

And, yes, he was also a sexual being, as his relationship with Samuel Steward indicates.

Kergan Edwards-Stout: Our Place in the World: Reclaiming Our Humanity Kergan Edwards-Stout 2012

Samuel Steward, as even Justin Spring admits, is an "odd candidate" for a biography.

Portrait of a taboo artist Andrew Holleran 2010

Samuel Steward luckily was at the right place at the right time so often that reading his biography is like gazing into a crystal ball, or being a fly on the wall in the boudoirs of the best and brightest of the era.

Brooks Peters: Lover Man: The Samuel Steward Story 2010

In his subject Samuel Steward, the author paints a portrait of homosexual life in the mid-20th century.

2010 National Book Award winners announced Stephen Lowman 2010

Samuel Steward, as even Justin Spring admits, is an "odd candidate" for a biography.

Portrait of a taboo artist Andrew Holleran 2010

The biographer Gilbert A. Harrison, in "The Enthusiast: A.Life of Thornton Wilder" (1983), cites the views of Samuel Steward, an intimate friend of Wilder's who is now generally acknowledged to have been his lover.

A Man Who Knew Everyone 2008

Reader Comments Share Your Views What do you take from Samuel Steward's personal documentation of gay life in the 1950s and 60s?

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Courtesy of Michael WiliamsA staged Polaroid photograph, shot by Samuel Steward in his apartment in Chicago around 1952, of a scene from Jean Genet's "Querelle de Brest."

NYT > Home Page By ERIK PIEPENBURG 2011

Reader Comments Share Your Views What do you take from Samuel Steward's personal documentation of gay life in the 1950s and 60s?

NYT > Home Page By ERIK PIEPENBURG 2011

Courtesy of Michael WiliamsA staged Polaroid photograph, shot by Samuel Steward in his apartment in Chicago around 1952, of a scene from Jean Genet's "Querelle de Brest."

NYT > Home Page By ERIK PIEPENBURG 2011