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%u00a9Jack Fritscher, Ph.D., All Rights ReservedHOW TO LEGALLY QUOTE FROM THIS BOOK266 Jack Fritscherhe is noted as the founding San Francisco editor in chief of Drummermagazine (1977); and as its most frequent contributor for twenty-four years, he has become the keeper of its institutional memory in his series of history books, Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer and Profiles in Gay Courage.With more than sixty-five years as a published author, he remains a working scholar of American popular culture cited particularly for his books Popular Witchcraft (1971) and his controversial memoir of art and Catholicism, Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera. (1994).Having penned What They Did to the Kid in 1965 as a stand-alone novel, he subsequently continued the story of Ryan O%u2019Hara in his awardwinning signature book, Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982.He lives near the Golden Gate Bridge with his spouse of forty-six years, Mark Hemry, and their Border Collies, Kate, Guenevere, and Rosie.Information at www.JackFritscher.com