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Mississippi Sissy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312341022)
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xMississippi 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 CunninghamAuthor: Kevin Sessums
ISBN-10: 0312341024
ISBN-13: 9780312341022
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 03/04/2008
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 04/20/2008 pg. 24
Time 05/18/2009 pg. 63
By Kevin Sessums
xKevin 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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