My Life and Loves

A punch in the face of the puritanism and conservatism he raged against My Life and Loves is the highly-charged erotic autobiography of Frank Harris (1856-1931) an Irish writer and editor who founded Pearson's Magazine in the United States (1914-1918). When first published the book elicited hostile criticism because of its blunt and frank detail of Harris's sexual exploits beginning in his childhood. A biographer of Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare Harris fought the U.S. government and postal service over the content of his publications - battles included in My Life and Loves along with Harris's blunt colorful depictions of his sexual exploits with willing Victorian Age debutantes. My Life and Loves remains a landmark in erotic literature as relevant and provocative today as it was when first privately printed in Paris.