Legman G

MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR!

AT LONG LAST AVAILABLE !

G. LEGMAN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY,

BOOK ONE

IN TWO VOLUMES.

CAN BE ORDERED FROM AMAZON AND POSSIBLY ELSEWHERE

VOLUME ONE ISBN 13: 978-1530187720 - ISBN 10: 1530187729

VOLUME TWO ISBN 13: 978-1535486743 - ISBN 10: 1535486740

Gershon Legman was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania at the time of the Balfour Declaration and the Russian Revolution, on November 2nd, 1917. He grew up in an observant Jewish family, went to public school and Hebrew school, and spent one rather fruitless year in a yeshiva in New York City aged 12/13. After working for a year to earn money, he went to the University of Minnesota for one term which was very eventful, but not successful. An autodidact author and thinker, he called The New York Public Library his alma mater. He has written and edited numerous books, and contributed many prefaces, mainly in the fields of folklore, erotic folklore, and erotic bibliography. The book he considered his best book, Love & Death, is a group of essays demanding why describing killing in many forms is considered good literary entertainment, and describing sexual loving was illegal at that time. This book was sent by a member of the United Nations to the members of one of the Scandinavian parliaments, and is probably influential in their “new freedom” attitudes which then spread throughout parts of Europe and eventually to America.

Although he never had an academic career, his work is much respected among many scholars. While on a lecture tour in America, he invented the slogan: “Make Love, Not War.” Legman lived mainly in France from 1953 on, having been harassed by the United States Post Office at that time.