Gary Schmidgall
Author of Walt Whitman: A Gay Life
About the Author
Gary Schmidgall is a professor of English at Hunter College and the City University of New York.
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- Birthdate
- 1945-06-14
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Stanford University (AB|1967; PhD ∙ 1974)
- Occupations
- Professor of English, Hunter College
- Organizations
- Stanford University
City University of New York
University of Pennsylvania
Hunter College - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Map Location
- USA
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Scholars complain that Sschmidgall is careless in his scholarship and tends to project his own 20th-century attitudes on Whitman. But for a casual reader, the book provides the basic story of Whitman's conflicted life.
A study of the life of Oscar Wilde focused on his homosexuality, this is both an unusual and informative biography. The book provides insights into not only the life of Wilde but also the queer culture of the day and various controversies surrounding his larger than life figure. I found this book worth dipping into and returning to along with my reading of the wonderful literary bounty left to us by Oscar Wilde.
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- Popularity
- #77,623
- Rating
- 4.0
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- ISBNs
- 22