Posted on Thu, Dec. 9, 2010

Transgender writer Jennifer Finney Boylan comes home to Philadelphia area

By Dianna Marder
Inquirer Staff Writer

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20101209_Transgender_writer_Jennifer_Finney_Boylan_comes_home_to_Philadelphia_area.html?ref=facebook.com

Jennifer Finney Boylan is at ease now in the living room of the Devon home where she spent her boyhood.

She has not always been comfortable in this place.

When she lived here as 13-year-old James Richard Boylan Jr. and had the whole top floor to herself, she did her homework with the dead bolt on the bedroom door, wearing the bra and sweater she kept hidden behind the room's faux wood paneling, and trusting she'd hear the stairs creak if anyone approached.

I love her and her books. I wrote her once in the middle of the night after I had found a line in one of her books particularly devastating because of it's melancholy and how it described my feelings perfectly. She wrote me back by the next morning.

Transgender writer Jennifer Finney Boylan returns to her boyhood home
By DIANNA MARDER
The Philadelphia Inquirer
15 December, 2010


http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/15/2521417/transgender-writer-jennifer-finney.html


PHILADELPHIA - Jennifer Finney Boylan is at ease now in the living room of the Devon, Pa., home where she spent her boyhood.

She has not always been comfortable in this place.

When she lived here as 13-year-old James Richard Boylan Jr. and had the whole top floor to herself, she did her homework with the dead bolt on the bedroom door, wearing the bra and sweater she kept hidden behind the room's faux wood paneling, and trusting she'd hear the stairs creak if anyone approached.