Kevin Sessums
| Kevin Sessums | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1956 (age 55–56) Mississippi, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Author, magazine editor |
| Known for | Author, Mississippi Sissy |
Kevin Sessums (born 1956) is an American author, editor and actor from Forest, Mississippi. Sessums served as executive editor of Interview and as a contributing editor of Vanity Fair, Allure, and Parade. His work has also appeared in Travel+Leisure, Elle, Out, Marie Claire, and Playboy. He has written theatre criticism for Towleroad.com and cultural postings for Thedailybeast.com. He attended the Juilliard School of Drama.
Sessums, who is openly gay, published a 2007 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 and won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Male Memoir of 2007.[1] His audio recording of Mississippi Sissy was nominated for a 2007 Quill Award.[2] Sessums portrayed the character Peter Cipriani in the miniseries adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.[3] St. Martins Press will publish his sequel to the bestselling Mississippi Sissy which is titled I Left It on the Mountain.
His brother is artist J. Kim Sessums of Brookhaven, Mississippi. His sister is Karole Sessums, one of the founders of Grey Matters.
[edit] References
- ^ Provenzano, Jim (2007-03-01). "Sissy fire". Bay Area Reporter. http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=232. Retrieved 2007-07-20.
- ^ "The Quill Awards Announce 2007 Nominees". Quill Awards. 2007-06-02. Archived from the original on 2007-07-15. http://web.archive.org/web/20070715174323/http://www.thequills.org/press.html. Retrieved 2007-07-20.
- ^ Kevin Sessums at the Internet Movie Database
