Chapters from an Autobiography

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Summary: One of the most fascinating autobiographies I've ever read.
Review: I couldn't put this book down; and neither could anyone else to whom I've recommended it. Steward led a most unusual and broad life, having been a professor of English, an extremely popular underground author of homosexual erotic and pornographic stories, a professional tattoo artist, a co-worker of Kinsey's, and a fanatic admirer of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to whom he became a devoted friend. The book is superbly written, and one only regrets that it is so short, and that Steward (who died a few years ago [not of AIDS]) did not live to expand it into a longer, more detailed account of his extraordinary life. Fascinating and very engagingly written; but one must caution the more prudish reader that he DOES speak frankly of his romantic and sexual involvements, though by no means in a coarse manner.