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 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 Masters of Fine Arts program at Johns Hopkins University. A native of suburban Washington DC, Kennedy currently lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her partner, Kevin Bruyneel. She previously lived with filmmaker Liz Canner 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.
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Bibliography
Novels
Spinsters (1995) (shortlisted for 1996 Orange Prize)
The Exes (1998)
Confessions of a Memory Eater (2006)
Collections
Stripping (1994)
Non fiction
Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970s (1994)
Pagan Kennedy's Living: Handbook for Ageing Hipsters (1997)
Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo (2002)
The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution (2007)
Anthologies containing stories by Pagan Kennedy
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
Short stories
Elvis's Bathroom (1989)
External links
- Official Pagan Kennedy site
- "So, Are You Two Together?" - Ms. Magazine article by Pagan Kennedy.
- 1998 Publisher's Weekly Profile
