Ki Longfellow
“Believe. Believe. I wanted to be a writer. I wasn’t a writer but I pretended I was until I WAS. I believed. I took the belief into myself and I held it close. And then? One day there I was, holding my first published novel. ”
Ki Longfellow’s Books
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The Secret Magdalene
This radical retelling of the greatest story ever told brings Mary Magdalene to life-not as a prostitute or demon-possessed-but as an educated woman who was truly the “apostle to the apostles.” Published by Crown.
Flow Down Like Silver
Hypatia dazzled the world with her brilliance, was courted by men of every persuasion and was considered the leading philosopher and mathematician of her age…yet her mathematics, her inventions, the very story of her life in all its epic and dramatic intensity, has gone untold. A heart-breaking love story, an heroic struggle against intolerance, a tragedy and a triumph, Hypatia walks through these pages fully realized while all around her Egypt’s Alexandria, strives to remain a beacon of light in a darkening world.
Houdini Heart
Once caught in its pages, there’s no escaping Longfellow’s terrible tale. Weeks ago, she was one of Hollywood’s biggest writers, wed to one of its greatest stars. The doting mother of their golden child. But now? She’s alone, tortured by a horrifying secret no woman could bear.
Walks Away Woman
A remarkable story of an ordinary woman driven to an extraordinary decision. Overwhelmed, overwrought, and overweight, an everyday housewife walks into the Sonoran Desert to die. But there is more to a desert than sand: thorns, venom, heat, man, beast—and adventure.
China Blues
“Offbeat, unruly characters and vibrant atmosphere spill over the pages of this promising first novel set in San Francisco during Prohibition… Bootlegging, the Tong Wars, smoky speakeasies, inept mobsters, and the Teapot Dome scandal zigzag through these pages like streaks of lightning. The Jazz Era leaps to life.” —Publishers Weekly
Shadow Roll – A Sam Russo Mystery
It’s 1948. We’re on Staten Island where no one who is anyone would ever set foot. We’re with Sam Russo, a neglected graduate of the Staten Island Home for Children. Self-named and self-styled, Russo’s not long back from World War II where his unit fought on the Pacific Front with the very last of America’s mounted troops. A dreamer with the gift of gab, Russo is now a young private eye who’d like to follow in the hard-boiled footsteps of Bogart’s Philip Marlowe or Bogart’s Sam Spade—if only he was hard-boiled. In this, his first serious case, it’s a dream come true. Sam has two loves: racehorses and books. Now he’s up to his hocks in the murders of three promising young jockeys in Saratoga Springs at America’s oldest race track.
The illustrated Vivian Stanshall, A Fairytale of Grimm Art
A memoir of Ki’s marriage and artistic collaboration with the late great Vivian Stanshall. But even more than all that, it’s an ART BOOK: crammed full of Vivian’s paintings, sketches, unpublished family photos, letters and poems. Vivian Stanshall was the last of the true Bohemians. This is also a tale of Dada, a mad sad glad voyage through life on a grand scale made by one of England’s greatest treasures: the genius who was Vivian Stanshall.
Illustrated by Ben Wickey
Ki Longfellow by Ben Wickey
“There is nothing that is not God. It follows then, that it is not his Mind that moves all things, for we are not separate, but ‘our’ Mind.”
The Secret Magdalene
Ki Longfellow