Ki Longfellow
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December 9, 1944 Staten Island, New York |
| Occupation | Writer, screenwriter, playwright. theater director |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1980s to present |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Subject | Varied |
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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) 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.
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 [by 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. 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.
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