**Part biography, part cultural history,** The First Man-Made Man **is a dramatic, revelatory narrative that brightly illuminates the psyche of the first female-to-male.―** Chicago Sun Times **In the 1920s, when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman’s body, there were no words to describe her condition;** transsexual **had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. In a desperate bid to feel comfortable in her own skin, she experimented with breakthrough technologies that ultimately transformed the human body and revolutionized medicine. Michael Dillon’s incredible story, from upper-class orphan girl to Buddhist monk, reveals the struggles of early transsexuals and challenges conventional notions of what gender really means.**