Mississippi Sissy
by Kevin Sessums
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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 a memoir that echoes bestsellers like The Liar's Club, Kevin Sessums brings to life the pungent American south of the 1960s and the world of the strange little boy who grew there.
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Journalists, Gay journalists, Biography, Journalists, biography, Journalists, united states, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Stonewall Book Awards, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, New York Times reviewed, Mississippi, biography, Gay menPeople
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Mississippi Sissy
March 6, 2007, St. Martin's Press
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Mississippi Sissy
March 6, 2007, Audio Renaissance
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""When I am asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it's because we are still able to recognize one," said Flannery O'Connor."
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