InEdwin andJohn: A Personal History of the American South, award-winning author James T. Sears interweaves diaries, letters and poems to craftan innovative first-person narrative history that details the hard realities of growing up gay in the South during the early decades of the20thcentury.
Set against the backdrop of World War II and the post-war South, Edwin and John,provides a unique andintimateapproachtoqueer history by followingthe50 year relationshipbetween JohnZeigler and Edwin Peacocke thatcarried them both from their roots intheconservative South, through service inWorld War II,...