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The Month of the Buckeye (and a week of the Cardinal)

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: February 20, 2011

Greetings, Buckeyes.  Jenny Boylan will be making not one but two trips to your fair state of Ohio in the forthcoming month of March.  Trip the first is on March 3, when I’ll be speaking at Wright State University in the evening.  I believe my event will be open to the public, and I’d be [...]

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Geeks Guide to the Galaxy interviews JFB

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: January 20, 2011

Here’s a podcast hosted by two writers, John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley. Their copy runs: Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror, joins us this week on io9′s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast to talk about literal and metaphorical monsters, and growing up transgender. Falcon Quinn book cover [...]

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Magic Eight Ball Reveals the Future

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: January 19, 2011

I spent this New Year’s Eve safely at home, hunkered down with the family and a couple of friends.   I’ve done New Years in a variety of venues—on a rooftop in Manhattan, in the streets of Cork, Ireland—but home is best.  At home, at the very least, you can be certain that no one is [...]

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Rock and Roll High School: Jenny Boylan Goes Home Again

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: December 4, 2010

About a month ago, the Headmaster of my old high school called me and asked if I’d speak there. It’s probably worth noting that my alma mater, The Haverford School, was then and is now an all-boys school.  It was not known, in the 1970s, for being particularly compassionate toward those in the culture who [...]

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JFB at George Mason University today

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: September 24, 2010

Please join me today (friday, September 24) at George Mason University, in Fairfax, VA, at 1:30. This is part of their Fall for the Book Festival 2010. And there will be a reception @ 3 pm hosted by the GMU dept of Womens, Gender & Sexuality studies. If you’re in the DC area, I hope [...]

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from the Franklin County Bulldog: JB at DDG Bookstore 7/13

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: June 24, 2010

This piece appears in today’s Daily Bulldog. You can read it in its original context here. FARMINGTON – On July 13 national bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan will be coming to Farmington to share her sensational new Young Adult Fantasy, Falcon Quinn and The Black Mirror. The Falcon Quinn series mark a new chapter for the [...]

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The Writers’ Mise en Place

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: June 15, 2010

Facebook friend (and New Yorker writer) Susan Orlean is up at the Macdowell Colony, I think, if I’m following the “updates” properly… Mcdowell being one of those places where writers go to be surrounded by absolute quiet and to focus on their work. This got me thinking about my own writing-space, which is funny because [...]

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Postcard from Maine

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: June 13, 2010

Down at the town wharf, eatin lobstah rolls, watching the fishing boats go out. We nipped into the Harraseeket lobster shack while waiting for Seans last soccer game to start.

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On waffles and waffling. And the heart. And writing. And waffles.

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: May 30, 2010

This post was written for the Inside Colby blog by my student, Annelise Wiersema. It probably speaks for itself. Waffling and Writing Annelise Wiersema ’10 on November 17, 2009 First, Jenny put down the eggs and milk on the seminar table. Our class stared at her, waiting for the analogy. Jenny Boylan’s a fairly eccentric [...]

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On Salinger, and the public life of writers

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: February 1, 2010

This piece of mine, written Friday, appears on today’s (Monday) op/ed page of the New York Times. Raise High the P.R. Blitz by Jennifer Finney Boylan THE national bereavement over the death of J. D. Salinger provided a strangely public moment in the career of a writer who’d become best known, in recent years, for [...]

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    Jenny Boylan's twelfth book, FALCON QUINN AND THE CRIMSON VAPOR, now on sale from HarperCollins!

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  • PROFESSOR JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN is the author of twelve books, including She's Not There: a Life in Two Genders, and I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted, both published by Random House. A novelist, memoirist, and short story writer, she is also a nationally known advocate for civil rights. Jenny has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Live with Larry King, the Today Show, the Barbara Walters Special, NPR's Marketplace and Talk of the Nation; she has also been the subject of documentaries on CBS News' 48 Hours. and The History Channel. She is a regular contributor to the op/ed page of the New York Times and Conde Nast Traveler magazine. Since 1988, she has been Professor of English at Colby College in Maine; in 2010, she was the Hoyer-Updike Distinguished Writer at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. She has also served on the judging committee of the Fulbright Scholars, administered by the U.S. Department of State.

    Her next published book will be STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU: Parenthood in Two Genders, coming from Crown/Random House in 2013, along with an updated, 10th anniversary edition of SHE'S NOT THERE.

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  • Blog Archive

  • The Boylan Family, summer 2010

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  • Will Forte as Jennifer Finney Boylan on “Saturday Night Live”

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  • Jenny with Barbara Walters, December, 2008

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  • Jenny atop Maine’s Mount Katahdin

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  • Surrounded

    boylanWith President Clinton and Maine's Governor John Baldacci, fall 2006.

  • JFB and Edward Albee

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    Edward had been my teacher at Johns Hopkins in the winter of 1986. He visited Colby in fall, 2007. As we took our leave of each other, he kissed me on both cheeks and said, "We have done well. You and I."

  • Jenny and her teacher, the great John Barth

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    Jack was my professor at JHU when I did my thesis, back in the day. After many years, I can now confidently say I finally understand his definition of plot. Which is, of course, "the perturbation of an unstable homeostatic system and its catastrophic restoration to a new and complexified equilibrium."