He ultimately donated large numbers of drawings, paintings and decorative objects that he himself had created to the Institute. He also allowed Kinsey to take detailed photographs of that sexually-themed apartment. During his years of work with the Institute, Steward collected and donated sexually themed materials to the Kinsey archive, gave Kinsey access to his lifelong sexual records, introduced him to large numbers of sexually active men in the Chicago area, and provided him with large numbers of early Polaroid sex photographs which he took during the frequent all-male sex parties he held in his Chicago apartment.
Steward met sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in late 1949 and subsequently became an unofficial collaborator with Kinsey’s Institute for Sex Research. He later detailed these encounters, some of them sexual, in his brief memoir Chapters from an Autobiography (1981). In 1936 Steward was summarily dismissed from his second teaching position, at the State College of Washington at Pullman, as the result of his sympathetic portrayal of a prostitute in his well-reviewed comic novel Angels on the Bough, though he taught at other universities afterward.ĭuring a 1937 trip to visit Gertrude Stein in France, he also met with many other literary figures, including Thornton Wilder, Lord Alfred Douglas (the lover of Oscar Wilde), Thomas Mann, and André Gide. Samuel Steward (1909-1993), also known as Phil Andros, Phil Sparrow, and many other pseudonyms, was an American writer, university professor, tattoo artist, and unofficial collaborator with Alfred Kinsey’s Institute for Sex Research.
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