Lili Elbe

LE , born in Denmark in 1882, was an artist rather than an author. She wrote one major work: her life narrative about her years as a man, her embrace of her female identity, and the surgeries she underwent to, as she saw it, become Lili. Fra Mand til Kvinde was published in Danish on 2 December 1931, a few months after LE's death. An English version, Man into Woman, appeared two years later. It was the first book-length trans narrative to appear in print and it helped shape public understandings of transgender lives of the early-twentieth century.