Shared Secrets - The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger

"Biography of the British expatriate Charles Joseph Finger (1867-1941), known primarily as an award-winning author of children's literature. Finger's allusive and suggestive short fiction won some critical acclaim during his lifetime, but the Newbery Medal that made him famous ended his development as an author of serious queer literature. His insistence on forging a life on the secret byways of queer culture offers a rare example of gay community at a time when openly lived identities were prohibitively difficult to actualize"--

About the author

Elizabeth Findley Shores, an independent scholar living in Little Rock, Arkansas, is the author of On Harper's Trail: Roland McMillan Harper, Pioneering Botanist of the Southern Coastal Plain and Earline's Pink Party: The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman.

Summary

For nearly a century, British expatriate Charles Joseph Finger (1867-1941) was best known as an award-winning author of children's literature. In Shared Secrets, Elizabeth Findley Shores relates Finger's untold story, exploring the secrets that connected the author to an international community of twentieth-century queer literati.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Findley Shores
• Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781682261552
• ISBN: 978-1-68226-155-2
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies