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. 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). 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. Samuel Steward was born in Woodsfield, Ohio and began attending Ohio State University in Columbus in 1927.
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