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A great evening of accomplished biography is in store as Justin Spring and Wendy Moffat each discuss their critically-acclaimed work. A professor at Dickinson College, Wendy Moffat is here with a groundbreaking new biography, A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). "Wendy Moffat's reexamination of E.M. Forster identifies his homosexuality as the essence of his creative life. Using unpublished writings, she charts his gradual awakening to the moral, intellectual, and emotional significance of his homoerotic imagination. Her book is an astute and original new portrait of this major novelist." - Michael Holyroyd. Justin Spring is here at an auspicious moment, virtually the eve of the announcements for the 2010 National Book Awards. His Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is one of this year's finalist nominees in Nonfiction. "Samuel Steward, secret sexual historian, is a secret no longer. From an evangelical Ohio boardinghouse to the South Side YMCA, Steward led—and recorded—an improbably revealing, representative life. Bedding Oscar Wilde's Bosie, taking tea with Stein and Toklas, and confessing to (and performing for!) Dr. Kinsey, he seemed determined to leave no corner of twentieth-century American queer culture unexplored and undocumented. Justin Spring has rescued his story from a San Francisco attic and set it before twenty-first-century readers with unflagging patience, authority, and humanity—Secret Historian is a major achievement." - Langdon Hammer.
