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Iolanthe Woulff

Goodreads author profile

url

http://www.goodreads.com/LadyWoulff

born

March 06, 1950 in New York, N.Y., The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.iolanthewoulff.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Gay & Lesbian

influences

Peter Blauner, Carl Hiaasen, Robert R. McCammon, Jean Shepherd, Booth...more

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December 2009

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Iolanthe "Lannie" Woulff came into the world as a male during the fifth year of the Truman presidency, which means that she is rapidly acquiring the status of an antique. In 1958 her family moved from Manhattan to the island of St. Thomas, which in those days was a sparsely-populated tropical dot in the Caribbean. There "Nate", as Lannie was known in those days, spent several idyllic years gleefully swinging from jungle vines and swimming on the world's most beautiful unspoiled beaches. She treasures many poignant memories of that lost paradise, which, alas, is no longer.

Moving back to the mainland in 1964, Lannie attended The Maret School in Washington, D.C. As the Vietnam War raged and protest movements convulsed the nation, she gained ad...more Iolanthe "Lannie" Woulff came into the world as a male during the fifth year of the Truman presidency, which means that she is rapidly acquiring the status of an antique. In 1958 her family moved from Manhattan to the island of St. Thomas, which in those days was a sparsely-populated tropical dot in the Caribbean. There "Nate", as Lannie was known in those days, spent several idyllic years gleefully swinging from jungle vines and swimming on the world's most beautiful unspoiled beaches. She treasures many poignant memories of that lost paradise, which, alas, is no longer.

Moving back to the mainland in 1964, Lannie attended The Maret School in Washington, D.C. As the Vietnam War raged and protest movements convulsed the nation, she gained admission to Princeton, and after escaping the inaugural Selective Service lottery by a scant fourteen points, graduated in 1973 with a degree in English. For several ensuing years she lived in New York City and worked for her uncle, who was then developing an early prototype hybrid vehicle. That was during the Studio 54 era, the so-called "Me Decade", which Lannie experienced at full throttle while writing a coming-of-age novel which fortunately remained unpublished.

In 1980, at the urging of her younger brother, she moved to Israel, where together they opened a diving business on the Red Sea. When the Lebanon War wiped out the tourist trade and with it their business, she returned stateside to raise pedigreed Black Angus cows on a family farm in northern Virginia's famous Hunt Country. The rolling hills and pastoral beauty of that area provide the setting for SHE'S MY DAD.

Succumbing to the lure of the West in 1987, she finally settled for good in the California resort town of Palm Springs. Ten years later, fulfilling a lifelong imperative, Lannie commenced the complex and emotionally turbulent process of gender transition. During the process she authored a column called "The T Dance" in one of the local LGBT magazines, before turning her attention full-time to fiction writing.

Lannie is the proud parent of a beautiful and accomplished daughter,a new grandparent, loves to tease her generic tabby cat Xena, and enjoys spending time with her eminent father, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk.

SHE'S MY DAD is Lannie's debut effort. Believing that one must always retain a sense of humor, she is writing another novel.
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My novel has recently received two honors, for both of which I am exceedingly grateful:

Finalist: Mystery/Suspense, 2011 Global eBook Awards

Gold Medal: Fiction/Intrigue, 2011 Reader’s Favorite Awards read more »

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She's My Dad

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The Litigators

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Full Dark, No Stars
by Stephen King

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Murder, madness, misfortune; exemplary storytelling as per Mr. K's usual, but even for him, rather relentlessly grim.

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The Litigators
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Iolanthe Woulff gave

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The Marriage Plot
by Jeffrey Eugenides

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The Lovers (Charlie Parker, #8)
by John Connolly (Goodreads Author)

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Rules of Betrayal
by Christopher Reich

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Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright
by Justine Saracen

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The Last Oracle: A Sigma Force Novel
by James Rollins (Goodreads Author)

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“Hating, hating, hating, that’s all I ever hear. People are never just people. No, everybody’s a faggot or a dyke or a nigger or a dirty Jew or a goddamn liberal or something.” She clenched her fists and pressed them to her temples. “Oh, Jesus, I’m so sick of it. And now you’re willing to forget everything that was good about Lissa and despise her memory just because she had something inside that made her love women instead of men?” Eyes ablaze: “Is that the kind of person you are?”
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