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DON NOBLE: Award-winning author led a complicated life


DON NOBLE: Award-winning author led a complicated life
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Don Noble
Elizabeth Shores is a hard-working, hard-researching author with two previous volumes, both with Alabama connections: a study of the botanist Roland McMillan Harper and “Earline’s Pink Party,” which deals with “The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman,” and is set in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
“Shared Secrets” is very different.
The subject of her study is Charles Finger, who started life as an Englishman, a student at the Regent Street Polytechnic Institute in London. There he reveled in the Literary Society, which discussed contemporary writing, paying special attention to writers such as Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Those two writers were known to be gay, but then, and later, Finger and his cohorts steadily see gayness in many other writers: Jack London, Sir Richard Burton, Herman Melville, Jose ....

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"Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger" By: Elizabeth Findley Shores


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 The subject of her study is Charles Finger, who started life as an Englishman, a student at the Regent Street Polytechnic Institute in London. There he reveled in the Literary Society, which discussed contemporary writing, paying special attention to writers such as Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Those two writers were known to be gay, but then, and later, Finger and his cohorts steadily see gayness in many other writers: William Morris. Jack London, Sir Richard Burton, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Henry David Thoreau, Richard Halliburton, the painter Grant Wood and many, many others were thought to be gay, bisexual, or would like to be.  ....

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