[Yale-readings] April 16: Jennifer Finney Boylan

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Yale University Library Presents
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Author of She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders and I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted
Professor of Creative Writing and American Literature, Colby College

Thursday, April 16, 2009, 4:00 p.m.
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, 128 Wall Street
Free and open to the public
To celebrate Yale Pride, the University Library is pleased to present a reading by Jennifer Finney Boylan on April 16, at 4:00 p.m. in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall.  Boylan's 2003 memoir, She's Not There<http://jenniferboylan.net/books/snt/index.html>, was one of the first bestselling works by a transgendered American; until 2001 she published under the name James Boylan. She's Not There<http://jenniferboylan.net/books/snt/index.html>, currently in its eighth printing, is popular both as a textbook in high schools and colleges, as well as with reading groups. She's Not There<http://jenniferboylan.net/books/snt/index.html> won an award from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2004, the year after its initial publication. Anna Quindlen called it "a very funny memoir of growing up confused, and a very smart consideration of what it means to be a woman."
Her 2008 memoir, I'm Looking Through You<http://jenniferboylan.net/books/ilty/index.html>, is about growing up in a haunted house. While transgender issues form part of the exposition of the book, the primary focus of I'm Looking Through You<http://jenniferboylan.net/books/ilty/index.html> is what it means to be "haunted," and how we all seek to find peace with our various ghosts, both the supernatural and the all-too-human.
Since 1988, Boylan has been Professor of Creative Writing and American Literature at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
For more information on Jennifer Boylan, visit: http://jenniferboylan.net/index.html.  The full Yale Pride schedule is available at: http://www.yale.edu/lgbt/pride2009/pridelist2009.pdf.
This event is co-sponsored by the Library's Diversity Council and the Office of Diversity & Inclusion.

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