Female author writes about her own male past

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 Female author writes about her own male past

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/03/26/transgendered.author.ap/

BELGRADE LAKES, Maine (AP) -- 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.