Autobiography of an Androgyne

by Earl Lind

The Author Ready to Set Out on Life’s Journey.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF AN
ANDROGYNE

By EARL LIND ("RALPH WERTHER"—"JENNIE JUNE")

EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION
By ALFRED W. HERZOG, Ph.B., A.M., M.D.
Member of the New York and the New Jersey Bar
Editor of the Medico-Legal Journal

NEW YORK
THE MEDICO-LEGAL JOURNAL
1918

Copyright, 1919
By ALFRED W. HERZOG

First edition, 1,000 copies. Sold only, by mail order, to physicians, lawyers, legislators, psychologists, and sociologists; by Medico-Legal Journal, 123 West 83d Street, New York City.

This is copy Number ................ and is sold
to .....................................................

Inscribed to Nature’s Step-Children—the sexually abnormal by birth—in the hope that their lives may be rendered more tolerable through the publication of this Autobiography.

"But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

“Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken and hear for the time to come?"—Isaiah XLII, v. 22, 23.

CONTENTS

1. Introduction, by Dr. Alfred W. Herzog ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   I

2. Author's Preface ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   1

3. Autobiography ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   5

4. Appendix I. Impressions of the Author, by a Business Associate ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   246

5. Appendix II. The Case of Oscar Wilde, by Author of this Autobiography ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   251

6. Appendix III. Questionnaire on Homosexuality ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   259

7. Index ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   260

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Opposite—

2. The Author Ready to Set Out on Life's Journey ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   Title page

3. The Author—a Modern anon, Replica of the Ancient Greek Statue of "Hermaphroditos" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   Page 5

4. Ancient Greek Statue of an Androgyne called "Hermaphroditos," now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   Page 6

5. The Author at Thirty-four ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   Page 235

6. The Author at Forty-four ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   Page 242