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Alexandra Bogdanovic was born in Bronxville, N.Y. and grew up in Greenwich, Conn. She knew she wanted to be a reporter at age 12, and received her first byline in the Greenwich Time when she was a high school freshman. By the time she graduated from the Convent of the Sacred Heart in 1987, she’d been covering high school sports for a daily newspaper for four years.
In 1991, Bogdanovic graduated from Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., with a Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration in writing. She officially began her journalism career as an editorial assistant at The Advocate in Stamford, Conn., soon after graduation. After paying her dues at a daily newspaper, Bogdanovic decided to devote her efforts to community journalism in order to have a more direct and meaningful impact in the towns and villages where she worked.
Bogdanovic covered police, courts and municipal government at several weekly newspapers in the New York City suburbs from 1996 to 2003. After receiving 10 Virginia Press Association awards for her work at a twice-weekly newspaper in Warrenton, Va., from 2004 to 2012, the veteran reporter returned to Connecticut, where she is now a freelance writer.
Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Agency published her first book, “Truth Be Told: Adam Becomes Audrey” in August 2012.
She enjoys spending her free time with family and friends, chilling with her cat, Eli and watching and photographing high-goal polo.
Reviewed by Lit Amri for Readers' Favorite
“Are you ready? Your husband is really a woman.” A visit to a therapist changed one woman’s life drastically. In Truth Be Told: Adam Becomes Audrey, author Alexandra Bogdanovic shares her true story about her beautiful love and marriage that was turned upside down when her then husband, Adam, wanted to become a woman. Gender dysphoria is a topic that I have always been interested in, as there are two family relatives and a friend that I can connect with this – if I may say – a never-ending controversial subject. Readers’ understanding and emotion regarding the book’s theme will be challenged.
The beginning chapters of Bogdanovic’s marriage were good. Then there were certain points in the rest of the book that by turns made me cringe, sad, and even raised my temper. With the emotionally charged and candid prose, it was easy to immerse myself in her story. The positive situations can sometimes be found in the same section as the negative predicaments of her life. All in all, Truth Be Told: Adam Becomes Audrey is a book that I hope every reader will approach with an open mind. It will even offer some pearls of wisdom, provided that readers put aside their prejudice and just read. That being said, I was hoping that Bogdanovic would share more about Audrey, but the latter's lack of interest made this impossible. Still, no matter how bad the storm, there is always calm after that. Judging by the ending of this memoir, Alexandra Bogdanovic is doing just fine.
