Ki Longfellow

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Ki Longfellow (born 'Baby Kelly', later named Pamela, December 9, 1944) is an American novelist, playwright, theater producer, theater director and entrepreneur with dual citizenship in England. He is famous in the United States for his novel The Secret Magdalene (2005). This is one of his latest works exploring the divine feminine. In England, he is probably best known as Vivian Stanshall's widow, late musician, vocalist of Dog Bonzo Doo-Dah Band, songwriter, writer, broadcaster and intelligence.

Longfellow began writing seriously after Stanshall's death in 1995. His first two novels, China Blues 1989 and Chasing Women (1993) and most recently Houdini Heart were published, part of the noir series installed in and around New York City in the late 1940s. The fourth in Sam Russo Mysteries was published in 2015. Walks Away Woman, of a neglected Arizona housewife walking out to the Sonoran Desert to die, published in December 2013 On January 26, 2018, Ki's memoir of her husband, The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall, a Fairytale of Grimm Art, illustrated by Ben Wickey, was released.

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Early life and education

She was born as Baby Kelly on December 9, 1944, in Staten Island, New York to Andrea Lorraine Kelly, who was only sixteen. (Born November 17, 1928) The young mother finally named the boy "Pamela" when asked by the US Vital Records Office, then put her baby in foster care while she worked in many jobs during the final war years. When Pamela's baby had pneumonia, she was expelled from an orphanage. The girl was taken by her mother's father's relative. Pamela had been expelled from this "house" when it was discovered that the husband of this relative was rude. Pamela was never told about her biological father until she was 27 years old; he was only told that he was native American but never learned his name.

Within two years, Kelly, who briefly took care of her son, left New York to resettle in Marin County, California, near her married sister, Rosemarie Anderson. In Marin, Anderson took care of Pamela, until she left for Samoa, then to Texas with her own son and new husband, recently returned from World War II. She returns the girl to her mother.

Kelly met and married a US Navy man named Clifford Longfellow, claiming Pamela again at the age of four. He adopted him and he took his last name. Over the next few years, the family moved frequently, when he was assigned to the New York Brooklyn Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor Hawaii, Mare Island and Long Beach in California, and Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia. Due to frequent move, Longfellow attended different schools for each class except the years spent on Oahu. Among the task posts, the family lives with her adopted grandfather, Lindsay Ray Longfellow, at her home in Larkspur, California. Pamela relies on her for "family," and learns to enjoy hobbies to go to the racetrack.

Longfellow graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur. In his junior and senior years, he only attended interesting classes and cut off the others. Determined to become a writer, he spends time with painters, poets, and musicians in Sausalito, and discovers what remains of the Beat Generation in North Beach.

At the age of nineteen, Longfellow has a dramatic experience that he now considers to be a gnosis occurrence. Unaware of his current experience and suffering panic attacks, he volunteered to enter the State Mental Institute in Napa, California. There he was diagnosed, without the benefit of doctors, as "severe psycho-neurotics."

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Children, marriage, family and early jobs

On June 21, 1963, at the age of eighteen, Longfellow gave birth to her first child, the daughter of Sydney Longfellow (who became a painter and photographer as an adult). In 1964 he acted in his only film, Once a Thief (starring Alain Delon and directed by Ralph Nelson), partly written for him by film screenwriter Zekial Marko. In 1967 he moved with his daughter to New York City, where he worked briefly as a fashion model, and later as a writer for CARE. He moved to Montana, where he lived and worked for a year on a farm at Blackfeet Indian Reservation as a member of VISTA. He sailed to Europe, stayed for a while in Nice and Paris.

Back in New York City, Longfellow worked for promoter Bill Graham at his Millard Ordering Agency. In 1972, he met Robin Gee, manager of the Fairport folk band's English convention, and moved with him to England. They were together for five years and he became a British citizen. During this period, Longfellow occasionally wrote for British music magazine.

A year before her mother died suddenly at the age of 44 from embolism, Kelly told Longfellow, then 27 years old, for the first time about her real father; he is a Native American of Iroquois descent. Kelly had met her in art school but never told Pamela her name or the name of her school. Longfellow never met him or she could find him. Longfellow returned to California in 1975 and stayed there for a while.

In 1977, he flew back to England. There he meets Vivian Stanshall, frontman for Bonzo Dog Band. In 1977, they moved to a houseboat moored on the Thames River between Chertsey and Shepperton. On August 16, 1979, they had a daughter, Silky Longfellow-Stanshall, named after the favorite racehorse of Longfellow's childhood. On September 9, 1981 they were married at the registration office at Sunbury-on-Thames.

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Music and play

Longfellow and Stanshall wrote a radio drama and a joint song. In 1980, he edited the only book belonging to Stanshall, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End & amp; Other Places , published by Pete Townshend, from Eel Pie Publishing. He also helped Stanshall with a script for the movie version of Sir Henry at the Rawlinson End, starring Trevor Howard.

In late 1982, Longfellow discovered The Thekla , a ship he rescued and a renovation with government funds. He tethered him at the port of Bristol, where he adapted it as a theater and restaurant. She hopes this will provide protection for her husband, Valium's addicted husband. The restaurant failed, but the theater grew and also built a reputation as a music venue. In late 1984, Stanshall joined him at the Old Profanity Showboat .

In 1985, Stanshall and Longfellow wrote, produced, and performed their Stinkfoot, Opera Comics on the ship Thekla . The orchestra consists of local musicians and street performers. This event got very good reviews. Then the popular opera moved to London's West End, where part of it was funded by Stephen Fry. Perhaps because Stanshalls was not involved, it was not a financial success. In 2004, Sea Urchin Editions published the original copy of Stinkfoot , with an introduction by Longfellow. In 2010, it was produced at Bristol in concert version.

In 1986, Longfellow and Stanshall closed the theater and moved to their friend Bristol's house, actor David Rappaport.

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Writing career

Longfellow began to write in earnest. His first novel was the China Blues (1989), a historic thriller in Chinatown San Francisco in 1923. It was the auction object that Harper Collins won to publish in England. Doubleday, New York published the American edition in 1990. China Blues was translated into Spanish, Swedish, Hebrew, Czech, German, and selected by Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown.

The second book Longfellow Chasing Women (1993) is a comedy murder mystery in New York City immediately after the Great Crash of 1929. It was also published in England by the footsteps of Harper Collins Grafton. Then she was selected by a team of Australian women writers/producers. The process tries to match his novel as a film that teaches Longfellow much about the mainstream film business.

From the mid-1990s, when he was very ill with pneumonia, until the death of her husband in March 1995, Longfellow divides her time between a small farm in Brattleboro, Vermont and Stanshall flats in Muswell Hill, London. She and their daughter, Silky, hope that Stanshall will end her destructive habits and they can reunite as a family.

After Stanshall's unintentional death in a fire in 1995, Longfellow stopped writing for a while. As he slowly returned to work, he found a new "voice" very different from that expressed in his earlier work. As a widow, her work has grappled with the loss of her husband, her difficult childhood, and spiritual yearning. She has admitted that her experience at age 19 is a gnosis event.

Since becoming a widow, Longfellow has been publishing with the first name "Ki" (pronounced as in "heaven"), a name Stanshall gave him from the dream of life he had while living in Searchlight. Based on his novel, The Secret Magdalene he was invited to contribute to the non-fiction book Dan Burstein The Secret of Mary Magdalene (2006).

The novel, The Secret Magdalene (2005) has been translated into Spanish, Czech, Chinese, Icelandic, Hebrew and French. It was chosen in 2014 to be adapted as feature film by director Nancy Savoca.

Longfellow's novel Flow Down Like Silver, (Hypatia of Alexandria) (2009), is about the 4th-5th century mathematicians and philosophers living in Egypt. This is the second volume in his trilogy on the Divine Feminine or Shakti.

He rewrote the script for Stinkfoot, Comic Opera, to be staged in Bristol, England, cutting it into two hours. Peter Moss serves as music director. (At the same time he's working on his first nonfiction, a memoir of his married life called, The Last Showboat, a Vivid Memoir from Vivian Stanshall, Ancient Gymnastics Exhibition, & Stinkfoot, Comic Opera.)

A Stinkfoot Showcase plays Thekla in Bristol on the 20th, 21st, 22nd and 24th of July 2010. This is a concert performance of Stinkfoot songs supported by full bands and cast members of choice (including Nikki Lamborn and Vivian and Ki's daughter, Silky Longfellow-Stanshall), plus Tony Slattery as narrator and singer. It attracted the attention of great press ( The Word magazine, Mojo magazine, BBC London & BBC Bristol), and theaters like Bristol Old Vic. He sought funds to disrupt the original work.

The concert will be adapted as an animated film, titled The Last Showboat, (in pre-production in 2013) based on the history of the Old and Old Stories Showboat. (Until 2018 this is not over.)

Longfellow publishes Houdini Heart (2011), a horror/psychological thriller. In 2012, the Horror Writers Association announced that Houdini Heart is on the list selected for the Bram Stoker Award for "Extraordinary Achievement in Novel", 2011.

In February 2012, Eio Books redesigned and republished the first novel published by Longfellow, China Blues. It was chosen in the fall of 2013 either as a television series or a mini-series. By 2018, the 2013 option has expired, this option was re-elected as a mini-series by the production team behind Faraway Films.

In early April 2013, Longfellow published his first three titles in a series of murder mysteries featuring Sam Russo, Personal Eyes in the 1940s Staten Island, New York. It exists in the noir tradition. In 2015, Sam Russo's fourth book came out.

In December 2013, Longfellow published Walks Away Woman , a novel he wrote in 2002 when he lived in Tucson, Arizona. It explores a middle-aged woman who walks into the desert, having succumbed to her life.

In the mid-90s, an Australian producer team selected Chasing Women for feature films. After working for more than two years in the scenario, the project was abandoned. By the end of 2017, half of the team (now part of a production company called Faraway Films ) are looking for Pursuing Women again, having never forgotten it. In the process of selecting this book for the second time, Faraway Films found another novel by Longfellow ( China Blues ) and requested and was given three book deals. The three books are now in active pre-production.

On January 26, 2018, Long-Waiter's long-awaited long-awaited art book about her husband, Vivian Stanshall, was published by Eio Books: The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall, a Fairytale of Grimm Art , illustrated by Ben Wickey.

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Books

• 1989 - Chinese Blues (like Pamela Longfellow) - Harper Collins (UK) ISBN 978-0-586-20390-3, Doubleday (USA) ISBN: 978-0-385 - 26048-0
• 1993 - Pursuing Women (like Pamela Longfellow) - Harper Collins (UK) ISBN 978-0-246-13677-0
• 2003 - Stinkfoot: An English Comic Opera (like Ki Longfellow-Stanshall, with Vivian Stanshall) - Sea Urchin Edition (English, Dutch) ISBN: 978-90-75342-13-0
• 2005 - The Secret Magdalene - (like Ki Longfellow) Eio Books (worldwide) ISBN: 978-0-9759255-3-9
• 2006 - Secret Mary Magdalene - (contributing author) CDS Book ISBN 1-59315-205-1
• 2007 - The Secret Magdalene - Crown (Random House, English right) ISBN 978-0-307-34666-7
• 2009 - Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria, a novel - Eio Books (worldwide) ISBN 978-0-9759255-9-1
• 2011 - Houdini Heart , (Eio Books, April 2011) ISBN 978-0-9759255-1-5
• 2012 - China Blues , reissued by (Eio Books, February 2012) ISBN 978-0-9759255-7-7 (developed as a television series.)
• 2013 - Shadow Roll, Mystery of Sam Russo (Case 1) - Eio Books (worldwide) ISBNÃ, 978-1937819002
• 2013 - Good Dogs, Bad Dogs, Mystery of Sam Russo (Case 2) - Eio Books (worldwide) ISBN 978-1937819040
• 2013 - Girl in the Next Room, Mystery of Sam Russo (Case 3) - Eio Books (worldwide) ISBN 978-1937819057
• 2013 - Walks Away Woman - Eio Books (worldwide) ISBN: 978-1937819903
• 2014 - The Great Great Pulp Fiction Writer - The North Coast Girl/Sand Scandal (contributing author) Stark House Press ISBN 978-1933586557
• 2015 - Dead on the Rocks (Case 4) - Eio Books (worldwide) ISBN: 978-1937819125
• 2018 - Stained Vivian Stanshall, Fairytale Griya Art - Eio Books (worldwide) ISBNÃ, 978-0975925584

Movies

• 1965 - First Thief , actress
• 1978 - Sir Henry in Rawlinson End , Film Karisma, screenwriter
• 2007 - The Secret Magdalene , (option 2014)
• 2010 - Stinkfoot, Comic Opera , playwright, (pre-production in 2012)
• 2017 - Chasing Women selected by Faraway Films based in Australia and Los Angeles
• 2018 - China Blues and Away Woman Walks are also selected by Faraway Films

Theater

• Stinkfoot, Comic Opera , staged in Bristol, England and London, England, (revived in concert version of 2010)

References

External links

• Lovett's Publishing Interview, April, 2014
• Lucian Randall and Chris Welch, Ginger Geezer: The Life of Vivian Stanshall, London: Fourth, 2001. ISBN 978-1-84115-678-1 (hardback); 2002. ISBNÃ, 978-1-84115-679-8 (paperback)
• Ki Longfellow's official site
• "Ki Longfellow Interview", iBrattleboro, August 21, 2005
• Earl Doherty, review by Longfellow's The Secret Magdalene , the Jesus Puzzle blog
• Venue (Bristol): April 24 - May 3, 2009
• The Secret Magdalene in Chinese, known as the Great Sweeping Movements
• October 2012, Science to Sage ezine, pp. 76-79
• Stinkfoot , Old Pro, and Stanshalls
• Podcasts, Ki Longfellow about gnosis issues, Secret Magdalena Sites

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