Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay (b. 1961, Edinburgh) is a poet and writer whose first book of poetry, the partially autobiographical The Adoption Papers, was published in 1991 and won the Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award. Her other award-winning works include Trumpet, based on the life of American jazz musician Billy Tipton, born Dorothy Tipton, who lived as a man for the last fifty years of his life. Kay was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2006.
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