Pagan Kennedy
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Pagan Kennedy is an author and pioneer of the '90s zine movement, along with writer/publishers like Lisa Crystal Carver of Rollerderby, Jim Goad of ANSWER Me! and Larry Crane of Tape Op. Her autobiographical zine Pagan's Head detailed her life in extraordinary detail. She has also written nine books, including Spinsters, Stripping: And Other Stories, Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo, The Exes, and Confessions of a Memory Eater. She also writes for many magazines and newspapers including Boston Magazine, the Boston Globe and the New York Times.
Born Pamela Kennedy, she graduated from Wesleyan University in 1984, and later spent a year in the MFA program at Johns Hopkins University. A native of suburban Washington DC, Kennedy presently lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her partner, Kevin Bruyneel. She previously lived with a female friend in a set-up she has described as similar to a Boston marriage.
Her new book, due in March 2007 and published by Bloomsbury, is a biography: The First Man-Made Man. It concerns Michael Dillon who, in the 1940s, survived the world's first female-to-male sex change treatment and established himself as a medical student. It describes how he later fell in love with a male-to-female transsexual, Roberta Cowell, who was at the time the only other transsexual in Britain.
[edit] External links
- Official Pagan Kennedy site
- "So, Are You Two Together?" - Ms. Magazine article by Pagan Kennedy.
- 1998 Publisher's Weekly Profile
