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His works dealt with rough trade and sadomasochistic sex. In the 1960s Steward began writing gay erotica under the name Phil Andros. Some of his art was published in the trilingual Swiss homosexual journal Der Kreis (The Circle).

In the early 1950s he made pornographic drawings, many of them based on his own Polaroid photographs. He said Kinsey was 'as approachable as a park bench' and described him as a liberating influence.

In 1949, he participated in a BDSM scene for Kinsey to film, with a sadist that Kinsey flew in from New York. Steward met famed sex researcher Alfred Kinsey around 1949 and became an unofficial collaborator, helping Kinsey find new contacts. Wilder famously drafted the third act of Our Town during a brief affair with Steward in Zurich on their first meeting. Steward was also introduced to Thornton Wilder by Gertrude Stein, who at the time regularly corresponded with the both of them. Toklas Mysteries' featuring the famous couple as detectives. Toklas (Houghton Mifflin, 1977), and wrote two 'Gertrude Stein-Alice B. He also edited the book Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Steward's 1981 memoir Chapters from an Autobiography detailed these relationships, as well as other experiences. Gide once loaned to him for an evening the beautiful young Arab boy that Gide had brought from North Africa to France. He also met with many other literary figures such as Lord Alfred Douglas (the lover of Oscar Wilde), Thomas Mann, and André Gide. Toklas with whom he corresponded for 20 years after Stein's death. He visited Paris in 1937 and met her and Alice B. After Andrews died suddenly in 1932, Steward wrote to tell her of his death, and began a long correspondence and friendship with Stein. Andrews spent half the year in Paris, where he visited Gertrude Stein many times and then returned to teaching for six months in the U.S, where he told Steward about her.

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In 1932 Steward was taking college courses from Clarence Andrews, who had written a book which was the vehicle for Maurice Chevalier's first American movie Innocents of Paris ( 1929).

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He stopped teaching two years later to write and tattoo full time. In 1952 Steward began tattooing in Chicago under the name Phil Sparrow partly because he did not want to jeopardize his teaching job at DePaul. He moved to Chicago, teaching at Loyola until 1946 and then at DePaul University. In 1936 he was dismissed from a position at the State College of Washington due to the portrayal of prostitution in his novel Angels on the Bough. He began teaching English at OSU as a university fellow in 1932 during the final year of his PhD and was given his first post as a university professor in 1934 at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. While claiming that he never had “a love affair,” Steward’s “Stud File” meticulously cross-referenced approximately 5,000 sexual experiences with over 800 people during a 50-year period, including locations, coded descriptions of anatomy, and observations of his various activities.Samuel Steward was born in Woodsfield, Ohio and began attending Ohio State University in Columbus in 1927. The stress of alcoholism, drug use, and depression took their toll on what he called “My happily wasted life.” Steward died in poverty, leaving 80 boxes of letters, photographs, sexual paraphernalia, manuscripts, and a reliquary containing one of Rudolph Valentino’s pubic hairs. He befriended the Angels and became their “official” tattooist (1967–71). In 1964 Steward moved west, settling into a Berkeley cottage behind a house on Ninth Street near University Ave. Repelled by student activism, the “scruffy barrel-bottom scrapings of the ‘60s,” he called Berkeley the “Land That Time Forgot.” Steward opened a tattoo shop, near the Hells Angels motorcycle gang headquarters and the Oakland naval base, at 1727 San Pablo Avenue.

His tattoo craftsmanship achieved such renown that he was chosen to secretly tattoo King Frederick IX of Denmark. In the ’50s, after nearly 20 years in academia, Steward reinvented himself under different aliases as a tattoo artist (Doc Sparrow) and gay pornographer (Phil Andros). He developed a close friendship and shared his notes and photos with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. “Sammy” periodically visited them in France, shared artistic insights, and befriended many in their circle.įixated on his sexuality, Steward documented affairs with an lengthy train of lovers, including Rudolph Valentino, Rock Hudson, Thornton Wilder, Lord Alfred Douglas (Oscar Wilde’s lover), and Andre Gide’s nubile Arab lover. His admiring letters to Gertrude Stein in the early ’30s led to a close friendship with her and Alice B. Steward began his career as a novelist, professor of English at Chicago’s DePaul and other universities, and an editor of the World Book Encyclopedia.

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