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BIOGRAPHY
Find out more about my biography work by clicking on the covers below.
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Man Enough to be a Woman (with Jayne County) (Serpent’s Tail 1996)
I was a big fan of Wayne County when I was a kid, and went to see her London shows when I first
moved to London in the punk era. When she came back to London as Jayne in the 80s, I got to
know her by hanging around at the bar after shows and encouraging her to tell me stories about
her life. Jayne is a natural raconteur, a candid autobiographer and a witty commentator on the
times that she’s lived through, and eventually she agreed to collaborate on a book that would
get all her tales down on paper.
Man Enough to be a Woman was the first book with my name on the cover, but it’s
Jayne’s show all the way. It covers her childhood in rural Georgia, growing up as a
screaming queen on the streets of Atlanta in the 60s, then moving to New York and getting
in with the Warhol crowd. From then on it reads like a skewed history of late 20th-century
culture, embracing pop art, ridiculous theatre, glam and punk, prostitution and gender identity.
Jayne is still alive and well and working, and lives back in Georgia. Keep up with her
amazing career by visiting her website.
Order Man Enough to be a Woman from
Serpent’s Tail.
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