April Ashley
One of Brown's inspirations for the protagonist of his novel may have been English model April Ashley, whose autobiography, April Ashley's Odyssey (1982) (ISBN 0-224-01849-3), co-written by April Ashley and Duncan Fallowell and published in London by Jonathan Cape, recounts her experience after she was outed as a transsexual.
Prior to being outed, April had worked in Paris as a female impersonator at Le Carrousel nightclub, where she earned the money to pay for her sex-reassignment surgery.
April's autobiography can be read online at .
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