Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome teacher, activist, and Harvard alum Alex Myers, the first openly transgender student at Harvard University, for a discussion of his novel Revolutionary. In 1782, during the final clashes of the Revolutionary War, one of our young nation's most valiant and beloved soldiers was, secretly, a woman. When Deborah Samson disguised herself as a man and joined the Continental Army, she wasn't just fighting for America's independence'she was fighting for her own.
**Alex Myers** is a writer, teacher, speaker, and activist. At Phillips Exeter Academy, Alex came out as transgender, and was the first transgender student in that Academy's history. After Exeter, Alex earned his bachelor's at Harvard University, studying Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and living in the Dudley Co-op. Alex was also the first openly transgender student at Harvard and worked to change the University's nondiscrimination clause to include gender identity. Subsequent to earning a master's degree in religion at Brown, Alex has pursued a career in teaching English at secondary schools. He completed his Master's of Fine Arts in fiction writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he began his work on \_Revolutionary\_.