I'm the author of nine books and a contributor to a lot of publications, including the The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, Dwell, and Details. Several of my books have been optioned by film studios, including Fox Films and MTV Films.
Many years ago, I published a "secretly famous" zine called Pagan's Head; as a result, Wired dubbed me "Queen of the Zines" --though I know I was far from the biggest galoot in the publishing underground. If you look up "zine" in the American Heritage dictionary you'll find me.
MY LATEST BOOK...
... is a biography of the first person to have a sex change from female to male.
The New York Times Book Review calls this biography "mesmerizing. As close to Shakespearean tragedy as you can come."
The book follows Michael Dillon through his groundbreaking medical transformation and then to India, where he became one of the first Westerners ever to take vows as a Tibetan Buddhist.
"Devastatingly good . . . Novelist Kennedy's literary chops serve her well in this fascinating and heartbreaking social history."
--Booklist
"Succeeds grandly. Kennedy does a remarkable job of conveying Dillon's youthful inner turmoil . . . The First Man Made Man is a dramatic, revelatory narrative that brightly illuminates the psyche of the first female-to-male."
--Chicago Sun-Times
"Dillon's tale makes for a wild read. Absorbing."
--Entertainment Weekly
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