![]() ![]() ![]() She chose the figure of Mary Magdalene to tell that tale in her novel "The Secret Magdalene." Nancy Savoca, a brilliant independent film maker (winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize with her first film, "True Love") traveled all the way to Vermont to option the book as her next film. Eventually Ki began writing again, but her subject became the moment at age 19 that informed her life. When Vivian died in 1995, Ki stopped writing, living on Standing Room Only Farm in Vermont. ("China Blues" was reissued by Eio Books in 2012.) a long hard but ultimately fascinating trip. "China Blues," and her second novel, "Chasing Women," introduced Longfellow to Hollywood. Her first book, "China Blues," was the subject of a bidding war. The Old Profanity is on its way to becoming "The Last Showboat," film. "Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera," garnered a host of delighted, if slightly puzzled, national reviews. On it, she and Vivian wrote and staged a unique musical for the sheer joy of it. It remains there today as a Bristol landmark. In England, she created and sailed the Thekla, a 180 foot Baltic Trader, to the port of Bristol where it became the Old Profanity Showboat. She is the widow of a British national treasure, the complete artist Vivian Stanshall. Ki Longfellow, born on Staten Island, New York, to a French-Irish mother and an Iroquois father, grew up in Hawaii and Marin County, California, but ended up living in France and England for many years. ![]()
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