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A sad, complicated story. via Washington Post: Writer Caleb Hannan was watching an infomercial touting a “magical” golf putter late one night last year and got curious. A magical putter? Who came up with such an idea? Seven months later, Hannan found the answer — and walked straight into an Internet firestorm. His 7,700-word piece, published last week in Grantland, the ESPN-owned sports and pop-culture digital magazine, revealed that the putter’s inventor was a mysterious figure named Essay Anne Vanderbilt, a.k.a. Dr. V. Hannan found that Dr. V. had misrepresented her credentials as a physicist. Toward the end of his story, Hannan also reveals something else: that Dr. V. was a transgender woman. And that she had committed suicide in the course of his reporting on her.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:02:15 +0000

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