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Alex Myers (born c.1979) is an American author, educator andtransgender rights activist.
Myers was born in Paris, Maine.[1] As a teenager, he attendedPhillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.[2] He obtained a bachelor's degree fromHarvard University, where he studied near Eastern languages and civilizations.[3] While at Harvard he worked to have gender identity added to the school's nondiscrimination clause.[4] Myers obtained an MA in religion fromBrown University.[3] He later studied fine arts at theVermont College of Fine Arts.[4]
Myers taught English at Phillips Exeter Academy, and currently serves as the director of the Mountain School of Milton Academy.[5][6] His first bookRevolutionary was released in 2014.[4][2] Based on the life ofDeborah Sampson, the focus of the novel is a woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight in theAmerican Revolutionary War.[7][8][9] Released in 2019, his novelContinental Divide follows Ron Bancroft who grows up as a tomboy, comes out as a teenager and travels west to find himself.[10][11] In an interview withNew Hampshire Public Radio Myers discussed how his own experience with transitioning was reflected in the main character Ron in his novelContinental Divide explaining: "The parallels in my own life would be a rural childhood, a feeling of always being a boy despite society telling me that I was a girl, and then going off to a more urban college experience with a bit more exposure to a range of differences."[12] Myers' third bookThe Story of Silence (2020) is a retelling ofLe Roman de Silence.[13]
Myers is atransgender man.[4][1] He began transitioning in 1995 during his senior year at Phillips Exeter Academy.[2] Having studied the first three years as a woman, he returned to campus senior year with his hair cut and requested that he be called Alex.[1] The transition made him the first openly transgender student in the school's history.[5][14]
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