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Jennifer Finney Boylan’s ‘How I Write’ Interview

How I Write

Jennifer Finney Boylan started her writing career as James Boylan, and then became the first bestselling transgender author. She talks to her former student Noah Charney. Plus, more ‘How I Write’ interviews with Lev Grossman and Jodi Picoult.

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James Finney Boylan was my creative-writing professor at Colby College just before undergoing an operation in 2002 (what she called “the switcheroo”) to become Jennifer Finney Boylan.

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