Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott

Adam Sobsey is the author of Chrissie Hynde: A Musical Biography (University of Texas Press, 2017) and co-author of Bull City Summer: A Season at the Ballpark (Daylight Books, 2014), a study of minor-league baseball. He has written for The Paris Review, Grantland, and many other venues, and has been a staff writer for PopMatters and Baseball Prospectus. Also a playwright, his work has been staged in New York, California, Texas, and North Carolina.

Adam Sobsey

There’s Always Tomorrow: On Ursula Parrott and Marsha Gordon’s “Becoming the Ex-Wife”

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Adam Sobsey is the author of Chrissie Hynde: A Musical Biography (University of Texas Press, 2017) and co-author of Bull City Summer: A Season at the Ballpark (Daylight Books, 2014), a study of minor-league baseball. He has written for The Paris Review, Grantland, and many other venues, and has been a staff writer for PopMatters and Baseball Prospectus. Also a playwright, his work has been staged in New York, California, Texas, and North Carolina.