Encounters With Authors: Essays on Scott Symons, Robin Hardy, Norman Elder

By Ian Young

Encounters with Authors is a memoir of three extraordinary men:

Scott Symons, award-winning journalist who exchanged a privileged background for a life in exile as scandalous as his revolutionary fiction.

Robin Hardy, who abandoned a promising legal career to advocate for the emerging gay movement, defying the "ticking time bomb" in his veins to challenge the orthodoxies of the AIDS era.

Norman Elder, explorer, painter, poet and Olympic equestrian, whose multifaceted career was cut short by a law deemed obsolete for a quarter of a century.