Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer

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Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer
Paper Doll - Dylan Mulvaney cover.jpg
Author Dylan Mulvaney
Audio read byDylan Mulvaney
LanguageEnglish
Genre Memoir
Publisher Abrams Image
Publication date
2025
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint, ebook
Pages272
ISBN 9781419770395

Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer is a 2025 memoir written by American transgender TikTok celebrity Dylan Mulvaney that documents her life before and after gender transition. [1] [2]

Contents

Synopsis

The book documents Mulvaney's life prior to, during, and after her gender transition; focusing on the highs and lows of her life throughout those time periods. [3]

Critical reception

USA Today , "It's both laugh-out-loud funny and powerfully honest--and is a love letter to everyone who stands up for queer joy." [4]

The New York Times , "For her book, Ms. Mulvaney showed a bawdier side. (Hookups are recounted, sometimes in detail.)" [1]

Rolling Stone , "Paper Doll is eloquent and occasionally wrenching about the desire to get out — out of toxic situations, out of the view of paparazzi, and out of one’s own head. It’s the journey of someone who dreamed of the spotlight but got burned by it." [5]

New York Post , "Mulvaney is indeed picture perfect — as a portrait of the fallacy of woke culture: that a generation was told that the world will morph to them. They will be affirmed and hugged at every turn, despite the obvious truth." [6]

References

  1. 1 2 Lange, Maggie. "Dylan Mulvaney Dreams of Privacy. Really". The New York Times . Archived from the original on February 18, 2025.
  2. Schumer, Lizz (September 25, 2024). "Dylan Mulvaney's New Book Paper Doll Will Offer 'a Level of Vulnerability That I Didn't Get to Show Online'". People . Retrieved September 27, 2024.
  3. Handle, Sarah; Lim, Megan; Summers, Juana (March 11, 2025). "For Dylan Mulvaney, 'sweet earnestness' is what feels right". NPR . Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  4. "Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer". USA Today . March 11, 2025.
  5. Klee, Miles (February 26, 2025). "Paper Doll". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on February 26, 2025.
  6. Fleming, Kirsten (March 10, 2025). "Dylan Mulvaney's shallow, narcissistic, nauseatingly pink memoir is an insult to women". New York Post .