13 Facts About Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent was a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a quarterly columnist on politics and culture for the national gay news magazine The Advocate.

Norah Vincent was a columnist for The Village Voice and Salon.

Norah Vincent's writing appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, New York Post, The Washington Post and other periodicals.

Norah Vincent gained particular attention in 2006 for her book Self-Made Man, detailing her experiences when she lived as a man for eighteen months.

Norah Mary Vincent was born in Detroit, and grew up both there and in London where her father was employed as a lawyer for the Ford Motor Company.

Norah Vincent attended Williams College, where she graduated with a BA in philosophy in 1990, before undertaking graduate studies at Boston College.

Norah Vincent joined an all-male bowling club, joined a men's therapy group, went to a strip club, dated women, and used her knowledge as a lapsed Catholic to visit monks in a monastery.

Norah Vincent wrote that the only time she has ever been considered excessively feminine was during her stint as a man.

Norah Vincent's alter ego, Ned, was assumed to be gay on several occasions.

Norah Vincent later wrote two novels: Thy Neighbor, described by The New York Times as "a dark, comic thriller", and Adeline, which imagines the life of Virginia Woolf from when she wrote To the Lighthouse until Woolf's suicide in 1941.

Norah Vincent, who identified as a lesbian, was briefly married to Kristen Erickson, but soon divorced.

Norah Vincent was described as a libertarian who was critical of postmodernism and multiculturalism.

Norah Vincent died via assisted suicide at a clinic in Switzerland on July 6,2022, aged 53.