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Norah Vincent

Born

in Detroit, Michigan, The United States

September 20, 1968

Died

July 06, 2022

Genre

Psychology, Biography, Nonfiction

Influences

George Orwell, Henry Miller, Andrea Dworkin, Hunter Thompson

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Norah Vincent was a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies from its 2001 inception to 2003. As a freelance journalist, Vincent wrote columns for Salon, The Advocate, the Los Angeles Times, and The Village Voice. Her essays, columns and reviews appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, The New York Post, The Washington Post and many more regional newspapers around the country. In 2003 she took a leave from writing her nationally syndicated political opinion columns in order to write her New York Times bestselling book Self-Made Man, the story of a woman living, working and dating in drag as a man.

Vincent held a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Williams College. Prior to her death she lived in New York City ...more

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Average rating: 3.4 · 10,882 ratings · 1,601 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again 3.43 avg rating — 6,302 ratings — published 2006 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin 3.39 avg rating — 3,886 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf 3.42 avg rating — 434 ratings — published 2015 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thy Neighbor 2.73 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Sound Smart: A Quick and Witty Guide by Norah Vincent, Chad Conway 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adeline by Norah Vincent (2016-02-04) by Norah Vincent, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back by Vincent Norah (2006-01-19) Audio CD by Norah Vincent, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Voluntary Madness : My Year Lost and Found in the Looney Bin by Norah Vincent, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.”
― Norah Vincent

tags: conformity, gender-stereotypes, loss, maleness, masculinity, tenderness

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“This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.”
― Norah Vincent

tags: addiction, anxiety, borderline-personality-disorder, depression, mental-health, mental-illness, ocd, recovery

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“That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.”
― Norah Vincent

tags: anxiety, bipolar-disorder, borderline-personality-disorder, depression, healing, mental-health, mental-illness, recovery, sadness

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