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John Colapinto

Biography

John Colapinto

ohn Colapinto's articles have appeared in Vanity FairThe New YorkerEsquireMademoiselleUs and Rolling Stone. AS NATURE MADE HIM is based on a landmark article published in Rolling Stone that won the National Magazine Award. John Colapinto lives in New York City with his wife and son. He is at work on a novel.

John Colapinto

Books by John Colapinto

by John Colapinto

In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine -- and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally informed of his medical history, made the decision to live as a male. A macabre tale of medical arrogance, it is first and foremost a human drama of one man's -- and one family's -- amazing survival in the face of terrible odds.