The first known autobiography writt...

The first known autobiography written in America by the agency of a self-described homosexual man appeared just above a century ago. The author, who was thirty years antique when he published the autobiography in 1901 adopted the pseudonym Claude Hartland. A publisher of medical textbook in Saint Louis, Missouri, printed his book--a trivial volume in a flourishing clothbound edition, which Hartland titled The Story of a Life. The narrative's one-hundr pages detail Hartland's physical symptoms and personal idiosyncrasies as a kind of case history for the benefit of the local medical fraternity, to whom