My Life And Loves, v5

My life and loves #5

by Frank Harris, Alexander Trocchi

Culled from an unfinished Frank Harris manuscript by Maurice Girodias (with help from Alexander Trocchi), this latest title in the series offers more of Harris' epic life and erotic adventures, with a measure of sexing up that Girodias himself attempts to justify in the preface. The work is An Irreverent Treatment, while in later editions, Girodias renamed the work What Frank Harris Did Not Say. There are some who feel Trocchi wrote a better Autobiography than Harris himself did.

132 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2004

About the author

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There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Frank Harris was an editor, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to America early in life, working in a variety of unskilled jobs before attending the University of Kansas to read law. He eventually became a citizen there. After graduation he quickly tired of his legal career and returned to Europe in 1882.

He travelled on continental Europe before settling in London to pursue a career in journalism. Though he attracted much attention during his life for his irascible, aggressive personality, editorship of famous periodicals, and friendship with the talented and famous, he is remembered mainly for his multiple-volume memoir My Life and Loves, which was banned in countries around the world for its sexual explicitness.