22 Facts About Ki Longfellow

Ki Longfellow is best known in the United States for her novel The Secret Magdalene.

Kelly met and married a US Navy sailor named Clifford Ki Longfellow, claiming Pamela again at the age of four.

At nineteen, Ki Longfellow had a dramatic experience which she now considers an occurrence of gnosis.

On June 21,1963, at age eighteen, Ki Longfellow gave birth to her first child, daughter Sydney Ki Longfellow.

Ki Longfellow moved to Montana, where she lived and worked for a year on a ranch on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation as a member of VISTA.

Ki Longfellow sailed to Europe, living for a time in Nice and Paris.

Back in New York City, Ki Longfellow worked for the promoter Bill Graham in his Millard Booking Agency.

Ki Longfellow returned to California in 1975 and stayed there for a time.

Ki Longfellow helped Stanshall with the script for the film version of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, which starred Trevor Howard.

In late 1982, Ki Longfellow discovered The Thekla, a ship she rescued and renovated with government funding.

Ki Longfellow moored it in the port of Bristol, where she adapted it as a theatre and restaurant.

Ki Longfellow hoped this would provide refuge for her hard-drinking, Valium-addicted, husband.

In 1985, Stanshall and Ki Longfellow wrote, produced, and staged their Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera aboard the Thekla.

Ki Longfellow's second book Chasing Women was a comedy murder mystery set in New York City immediately after the Great Crash of 1929.

From mid-1990, when she was very ill with pneumonia, until the death of her husband in March 1995, Ki Longfellow divided her time between a small farm in Brattleboro, Vermont and Stanshall's flat in Muswell Hill, London.

Ki Longfellow has claimed to have realised that her experience at age 19 was an event of gnosis.

Once widowed, Ki Longfellow published by the first name of "Ki", a name which Stanshall had given her from a vivid dream he'd had while living on the Searchlight.

Ki Longfellow rewrote the script for Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera, to be staged in Bristol, England, cutting it to two hours.

Ki Longfellow is seeking funding to restage the original work.

In February 2012, Eio Books redesigned and reissued Ki Longfellow's first published novel, China Blues.

In early April 2013, Ki Longfellow published her first three titles in a series of murder mysteries featuring Sam Russo, a Private Eye in 1940s Staten Island, New York.

In December 2013, Ki Longfellow published Walks Away Woman, a novel she had written in 2002 when she was living in Tucson, Arizona.