Tracy Quan is an American writer and former call girl. She is best known for her Nancy Chan novels. In addition, Quan writes a regular column for The Guardian website on pop culture, sex and politics and is involved in the prostitutes' rights movement.
Tracy Quan was born in the Northeastern U.S., but grew up in Canada. Her parents emigrated to the U.S. from Trinidad; she has spoken of Chinese, Indian, African, and Dutch ancestors. Her parents di...
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Tracy Quan is an American writer and former call girl. She is best known for her Nancy Chan novels. In addition, Quan writes a regular column for The Guardian website on pop culture, sex and politics and is involved in the prostitutes' rights movement.
Tracy Quan was born in the Northeastern U.S., but grew up in Canada. Her parents emigrated to the U.S. from Trinidad; she has spoken of Chinese, Indian, African, and Dutch ancestors. Her parents divorced, and she credits her close relationship to her father to this experience.
Tracy Quan read Xaviera Hollander's book The Happy Hooker when she was 10 years old and decided to be a prostitute. (Her prior aspiration, to be a librarian, was due to her image of librarians as independent, working women who got to collect money in the form of library fines.) By 19 she was supporting herself as a sex worker, working at an escort agency and a house before becoming an independent call girl with her own client list. As she told CANOE magazine in...
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