The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag - And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era

Long before Stonewall, young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York's literary bohemia, searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet. This work is an account of his avant-garde years in Greenwich Village and the bohemian outposts of Paris' Left Bank and Tangier.