I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
by Lucy Sante
☆ Finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography
In this memoir of gender transition—”a clarion call to live one’s most authentic life,” according to the Boston Globe—the Windham-Campbell Prize-winner Lucy Sante reflects on the process of coming out as a trans woman aged 67. If you’d like to get a flavour of the book, there’s an essay by Sante on the same subject available on the Vanity Fair website.
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