Ki Longfellow (born Pamela Longfellow) is an American novelist, playwright, theatrical producer, theater director and entrepreneur. In Britain, as the widow of Vivian Stanshall, she is well known as the guardian of his artistic heritage, but elsewhere she is best known for her own work, especially the 2005 novel The Secret Magdalene (pre-empted and republished in March 2007 by Crown, a division of Random House ), which deals with gnosis (the dire...
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Ki Longfellow (born Pamela Longfellow) is an American novelist, playwright, theatrical producer, theater director and entrepreneur. In Britain, as the widow of Vivian Stanshall, she is well known as the guardian of his artistic heritage, but elsewhere she is best known for her own work, especially the 2005 novel The Secret Magdalene (pre-empted and republished in March 2007 by Crown, a division of Random House ), which deals with gnosis (the direct experience of the divine), told through the Biblical story of Mary Magdalene. The second of her novels to deal with gnosis, although from a very different point of view, is Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria. Longfellow is also the author of China Blues and Chasing Women.
Born on December 9, 1944, most likely in the Mount Loretta Orphanage on Staten Island, New York, Ki Longfellow's mother, Andrea Lorraine Kelly (b. November 17, 1928), was barely sixteen years old. Kelly left her baby in foster care while she worked at any job she...
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