Kevin Sessums

Kevin Sessums

Kevin Sessums (born 1956) is an openly gay American author from Forest, Mississippi. Sessums served as executive editor of "Interview" and as a contributing editor of both "Vanity Fair" and "Allure".

In 2007, Sessums published a memoir titled "Mississippi Sissy", which is about the conflicted life of a self-aware gay boy growing up in Forest, Mississippi. It made the New York Times Bestseller list.cite web |url=http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=232 |work=Bay Area Reporter |title=Sissy fire |date=2007-03-01 |accessdate=2007-07-20 |first=Jim |last=Provenzano] His audio recording of "Mississippi Sissy" was nominated for a 2007 Quill Award.cite web |url=http://www.thequills.org/press.html |title=The Quill Awards Announce 2007 Nominees |work=Quill Awards |accessdate=2007-07-20 |date=2007-06-02]

Sessums portrayed the character Peter Cipriani in the miniseries adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.imdb name |id=0785956]

References

External links

* [http://www.mississippisissy.com/ Web site for "Mississippi Sissy"]


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