About this Book

From his first, unscripted appearance on an Off-Broadway stage in the revolutionary 1960's to the front-page news of his death from AIDS in 1987 at age 44, Charles Ludlam embodied the upheavals of his time. The astonishing life anc legacy of this American theatrical genius are revealed in this highly acclaimed literary biography. Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award of Biography and the Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Theatre Book of the Year.