“I looked like this horrible Elizabethan courtier” | William Vollmann, Cross-Dresser

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Mr. Vollmann is 54, heterosexual and married with a daughter in high school. He began cross-dressing seriously about five years ago. Sometimes he transforms himself into a woman as part of a strange vision quest, aided by drugs or alcohol, to mind-meld with a female character in a book he’s writing. Other times it’s just because he likes the “smooth and slippery” feel of women’s lingerie.

From another profile on William T. Vollmann, this time in The New York Times. The profile centers around Vollmann’s latest book, The Book of Dolores.

You may recall Vollmann’s previous adventures in cross-dressing.