The lost autobiography of Samuel Steward: recollections of an extraordinary twentieth-century gay life

A year before his 70th birthday, Samuel Steward (1909-93) sat down at his typewriter and began to compose a remarkable autobiography.

The story of this life would undoubtedly have been a sensation if it had reached publication.

But after finishing a 110,000-word draft, Steward lost interest in the project and subsequently published only a slim volume of selections from his manuscript.

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.