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Ki Longfellow (born 'Baby Kelly', later named Pamela, December 9, 1944) is an American novelist, playwright, theatrical producer, theater director and entrepreneur with dual citizenship in Britain. She is best known in the United States for her novel ''The Secret Magdalene'' (2005). This is among her recent works exploring the divine feminine. In England, she is likely best known as the widow of Vivian Stanshall, the late musician, lead singer of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, songwriter, author, radio broadcaster and wit. Longfellow started writing seriously after Stanshall's death in 1995. Her first two novels, ''China Blues'' (1989) and ''Chasing Women'' (1993) and the recent ''Houdini Heart'' (2011)〔(Comments on Houdini Heart )〕 are mysteries and thrillers. In April 2013, the first three titles of her ''Sam Russo Mysteries'' were published, part of a noir series set in and around New York City in the late 1940s. ''Walks Away Woman,'' about a neglected Arizona housewife walking out into the Sonoran Desert to die, was published in December 2013. ==Early life and education== She was born as Baby Kelly on December 9, 1944, on Staten Island, New York to Andrea Lorraine Kelly, who was barely sixteen years old. (Born November 17, 1928) The young mother finally named the child "Pamela" when required to by the authorities (which authority? ), then put her baby in foster care while she worked at many jobs during the last of the war years. When the infant Pamela contracted pneumonia, she was removed from the foster home. The girl was taken in by a relative of her mother's father. Pamela was removed from this "home" when it was discovered this relative's husband was abusive.〔"Ki Longfellow", ''The Bristolian'', May 1988〕 Pamela was never told about her biological father until she was 27; she was told only that he was Native American but never learned his name. Within two years Kelly, briefly assuming care of her child, left New York to resettle in Marin County, California, near her older married sister, Rosemarie Anderson. In Marin, Anderson cared for Pamela, until she left for Samoa, then to Texas with her own child and new husband, recently returned from World War II. She turned the girl back to her mother.〔 Kelly met and married a US Navy man named Clifford Longfellow, claiming Pamela again at the age of four. He adopted her and she took his surname. Over the next several years, the family moved frequently, as he was assigned to New York's Brooklyn Navy Yard, Hawaii's Pearl Harbor, Mare Island and Long Beach in California, and Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia. Due to frequent moves, Longfellow attended a different school for each grade except the years spent on Oahu. Between duty stations, the family lived with her adopted grandfather, Lindsay Ray Longfellow, at his home in Larkspur, California. Pamela relied on him for "family," and learned to enjoy his pastime of going to horse races.〔 Longfellow graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur. In her junior and senior years, she attended only those classes that interested her and cut others.〔 Determined to become a writer, she spent time with painters, poets, and musicians in Sausalito, and discovered what remained of the Beat Generation in North Beach. At nineteen, Longfellow had a dramatic experience which she now considers an occurrence of gnosis.〔 Not understanding her experience then and suffering panic attacks, she voluntarily entered the State Mental Institution at Napa, California. There she was diagnosed, without benefit of a doctor, as a "severe psycho-neurotic."〔"Interview with Ki Longfellow"], ''Woman's Hour,'' English radio show, 1993〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ki Longfellow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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