Kelsey Osgood

Kelsey Osgood is the author of How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writer's pick. She has contributed pieces to publications including New York, The New Yorker blogs, Time, Harper's and Longreads. She lives in London with her husband and is working on a book about religious conversion.

How the Tragic Literary Woman Became a Figure of Fascination

Kelsey Osgood on the Life of Vivien Eliot and a Misguided Historical Narrative That Won't Go Away

March 26, 2021 By Kelsey Osgood

I Found a Rare Copy of June Allison Gibbons’ Outsider Novel

On the Unusual Case of the Infamous "Silent Twins" and Their Literary Aspirations

July 13, 2016 By Kelsey Osgood

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