Charley Shively

Charley Shively (1937–2017) was an American gay writer, anarchist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. A scholar of Walt Whitman, he edited ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman's Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989) and ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987). He wrote ''A History of the Conception of Death in America, 1650–1860''. Provided by Wikipedia