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Mississippi Sissy

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by Kevin Sessums
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kevin SessumsPublish date:2008-03-04Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312341022ISBN-10:312341024UPC:9780312341022Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, LGBTQ+Size:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCPG6PNEM6

Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South.

As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie May, he became a young man who turned the word "sissy" on its head, just as his mother taught him. In Jackson, he is befriended by Eudora Welty and journalist Frank Hains, but when Hains is brutally murdered in his antebellum mansion, Kevin's long road north towards celebrity begins. In his memoir, Kevin Sessums brings to life the pungent American south of the 1960s and the world of the strange little boy who grew there.

"Kevin Sessums is some sort of cockeyed national treasure." --Michael Cunningham
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312341022ISBN-10:312341024UPC:9780312341022Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, LGBTQ+Size:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCPG6PNEM6

Kevin Sessums was a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair magazine for fourteen years and at Allure magazine for four. He was also Executive Editor for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. His work has appeared in Elle, Travel + Leisure, Playboy, Out, and Show People magazines. He was nominated for a Quill Award for his recording of the audiobook of Mississippi Sissy. He lives in New York City.


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