A Face from Uranus

<p>It's 1943. As World War II commands the world's stage nine-teen year old Tedd Burr struggles with his own private battle-gender identity. After receiving a draft notice Tedd reaches out in desperation to Henry Bellamann author of the best-selling 1940 novel <em>Kings Row</em> for advice. Tedd imagines that the author who wrote sympathetically in his novel about a boy who was too pretty for a boy might be able to help him in some way. And he's right. Henry responds initiating a warm correspondence that deepens into a relationship that lasts until Henry's death in 1945. This book publishes for the first time all the letters from Tedd and Henry's correspondence.</p>