Myron Brinig Memoirs circa 1980s

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Myron Brinig Memoirs circa 1980s

This collection contains the memoirs of Myron Brinig, a Jewish-American writer, and one of the first to write about gay experiences. His memoirs reveal his early and successful career as an author, his private life as a homosexual, and the nearly twenty years he lived in Taos, New Mexico.

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