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- ↑ Salahub, Jill (December 12, 2014). "News of Note Week of December 8th". Colorado State University. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
- ↑ Levy, E. J. (13 November 2018). "Theory of the Leisure Class". Vol. Summer 2003, no. 166 – via www.theparisreview.org.
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- 1 2 3 Levy, EJ (13 July 2013). "I'm a lesbian marrying a man". Salon. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
So let me be clear, since I can't be the only one: I am a lesbian marrying a man.
- ↑ "8th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. July 14, 1996.
- ↑ "Winners of the GLCA New Writers Award" (PDF). Great Lake Colleges Association. January 17, 2019.
- ↑ "Full List of 2012 Foreword Indies Winners". Foreword Reviews.
- ↑ "Fiction Book Review: Love, in Theory by E.J. Levy". Publishers Weekly . October 8, 2012.
- 1 2 3 Barter, Pavel (9 March 2019). "Novelist defends her version of pioneering trans doctor's life story". The Times. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
Trans writers have accused Levy of disrespecting Barry by referring to the surgeon as 'she' on social media... Levy told The Times that she referred to Barry in the novel as 'he', 'she', and most often as 'I'.
- ↑ Baker-Whitelaw, Gavia (February 15, 2019). "Writers want this book canceled for misgendering its protagonist". The Daily Dot . Retrieved February 16, 2019.
- 1 2 Flood, Allison (February 18, 2019). "New novel about Dr James Barry sparks row over Victorian's gender identity". The Guardian . Retrieved February 23, 2019.
When Levy, winner of the Flannery O'Connor award, announced the news of her novel by describing Barry as 'a heroine for our time, for all time', other authors began to question Levy's reference to Barry as 'she', including novelist Celeste Ng, who told Levy: 'I'm now seeing you use she/her pronouns for Barry even as many are telling you Barry himself used and wanted he/him pronouns.'
- ↑ The Cape Doctor. Little, Brown and Company. 4 February 2020. ISBN 9780316536554 . Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ↑ Becker, Alida (13 July 2021). "Fiction Based on Real People and Places, for Better and for Worse". The New York Times . Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ↑ "The Cape Doctor". Kirkus Reviews. 5 May 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ↑ Cape Doctor, by By E. J. Levy. | Booklist Online.
- ↑ "Regional book review: "The Cape Doctor" historical fiction at its best". The Denver Post. 2021-06-10. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
- ↑ Simpson, Kevin (2022-06-26). "2022 Colorado Book Award winners announced". The Colorado Sun. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
