Female author writes about her own male past

[TheBattler]

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/03/26/transgendered.author.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview



Jennifer Finney Boylan never set out to be the public face for the transgendered.


Jennifer Finney Boylan wrote about her 2000 sex change change in the best-selling memoir "She's Not There."

But the novelist and English professor at Colby College was thrust into that role by her 2002 best-selling memoir about the transition to womanhood that freed her from the decades-long torment of being a female trapped in a male body.

With three appearances on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," two on "Larry King Live" and numerous other interviews and public appearances, Boylan, 49, has become a sunny-faced activist for the nation's transgendered and one of the most widely recognized transsexuals of recent years........



Alice