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Ki Longfellow

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born

December 09, 1944 in New York, The United States

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website

http://www.kilongfellow.com/

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Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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September 2009

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From the age of four Ki Longfellow knew what she wanted to be, a writer. Or a painter. Writing won. Born on Staten Island, New York, to a French-Irish mother and an Iroquois father, she grew up in Hawaii and Marin County, California, but ended up living in France and England for many years. She is the widow of a British national treasure, the complete artist Vivian Stanshall, who dreamed her name was Ki. As Ki Longfellow-Stanshall, she created and sailed the Thekla, a 180 foot Baltic Trader, to Bristol, England where it became the Old Profanity Showboat. It remains there today as a Bristol landmark. On it, she and Vivian wrote and staged a unique musical for the sheer joy of it. "Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera," garnered a host of delighted, if s...more From the age of four Ki Longfellow knew what she wanted to be, a writer. Or a painter. Writing won. Born on Staten Island, New York, to a French-Irish mother and an Iroquois father, she grew up in Hawaii and Marin County, California, but ended up living in France and England for many years. She is the widow of a British national treasure, the complete artist Vivian Stanshall, who dreamed her name was Ki. As Ki Longfellow-Stanshall, she created and sailed the Thekla, a 180 foot Baltic Trader, to Bristol, England where it became the Old Profanity Showboat. It remains there today as a Bristol landmark. On it, she and Vivian wrote and staged a unique musical for the sheer joy of it. "Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera," garnered a host of delighted, if slightly puzzled, national reviews. Her first book, "China Blues," was the subject of a bidding war. "China Blues," and her second novel, "Chasing Women," introduced Longfellow to Hollywood...a long hard, but ultimately fascinating, trip.

When Vivian died, Ki stopped writing, living on Standing Room Only Farm in Vermont. Time may not heal, but it tempers. Eventually Ki began writing again, but now her subject was the moment at age 19 that informed her life...a direct experience with the Divine. She chose the figure of the Magdalene to tell that tale in her novel [The Secret Magdalene]. Nancy Savoca, a brilliant independent film maker (winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize with her first film, "True Love") traveled all the way to Vermont to option the book as her next film. "The Secret Magdalene" is in pre-production as of late 2009.

Ki's second book about personal Divinity is the recently published [Flow Down Like Silver], a novel about the numinous and gifted Hypatia of Alexandria, a tragically ignored woman of towering intellect who searched through intellect for what the Magdalene knew in her heart.

She is now at work on the third and last book in this series: "The Woman Who Knew the All," a continuation of the life of the Magdalene after the death of Jesus. She was still a young woman. Where did she go? Who did she meet? What happened to her? Surely a being as vital as she would not stop living the kind of life a seeker lives? In this third book, Mary Magdalene comes fully into her own as a woman and as an enlightened being.

Click here for The Secret Magdalene.

And here for Flow Down Like Silver.

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Average rating: 4.12 · 1,355 ratings · 262 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Secret Magdalene 3.98 avg rating — 940 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria 4.43 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Houdini Heart 4.49 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	China Blues 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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Ki Longfellow liked Shane Battier's review of Houdini Heart: " Strangest, truest, most freaky yet most logical "horror" I've ever read. I want more. "
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Ki Longfellow liked Leilani's review of Flow Down Like Silver: " This was a beautiful tribute to the world's first notable female philosopher, astronomer, and mathemetician. Tragically, much of her story (save her violent and horrible death) has been lost - "lost" being the age-old code for "utterly destroyed i... " Read more of this review »
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Ki Longfellow liked Laura's review of The Secret Magdalene: " FANTASTIC! Being raised Catholic, I think, helped me appreciate this story more than if not, especially having considered what has been suggested in paintings of the Last Supper and in the Davinci Code. Very well-written and engaging. Of course, t... " Read more of this review »
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Ki Longfellow liked Andrew's review of The Secret Magdalene: " Excellent book. One of the best I have read in a long time. Ki Longfellow researched the heck out of the time period to make sure the details were spot on! There is so much true and plausible detail-based-on-truth that the story seems like it coul... " Read more of this review »
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“What comes, is called.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria

tags: christian-history , hypatia-of-alexandria , mathematics , philosophy , spirituality

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“I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria

tags: desire , heart , love , need , poetry , sacrifice

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“Life is still an unfolding,the farther we travel the more truth we can comprehend, and to understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”
― Ki Longfellow

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