Dawn Langley Simmons
Author
1937 – 2000
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Who was Dawn Langley Simmons?
Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons was a prolific English author and biographer. Born "Gordon Langley Hall", Simmons lived her first decades as a male. As a young adult, she became close to British actress Margaret Rutherford, whom she considered an adoptive mother and who was the subject of a biography Simmons wrote in later years. After sex reassignment surgery in 1968, Simmons wed in the first legal interracial marriage in South Carolina.
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- Born
- Oct 15, 1937
Kent - Also known as
- Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons
- Gordon Langley Hall
- Parents
- Spouses
- John-Paul Simmons
( - 1982)
- John-Paul Simmons
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Died
- Sep 18, 2000
Charleston
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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