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	{{Short description\|Canadian journalist and writer}}		{{Short description\|Canadian journalist and writer}}
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	{{Infobox writer		{{Infobox writer
	\| name = John Colapinto		\| name = John Colapinto
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	Before working on staff at ''The New Yorker'', Colapinto's articles appeared in ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)\|Vanity Fair]]'', ''[[Esquire (magazine)\|Esquire]]'', ''[[Mademoiselle (magazine)\|Mademoiselle]]'', ''[[Us (magazine)\|Us]]'', ''[[New York (magazine)\|New York]]'' and ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'', and in 1995 he became a contributing editor at ''[[Rolling Stone]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine \|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> \|title=John Colapinto \|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/john-colapinto \|access-date=September 29, 2014 \|magazine=Rolling Stone \|archive-date=October 22, 2014 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022075932/http://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/john-colapinto \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> \|title=Biography John Colapinto \|url=http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/john-colapinto \|access-date=September 29, 2014 \|website=Book Reporter \|publisher=Real Talk publishing}}</ref>		Before working on staff at ''The New Yorker'', Colapinto's articles appeared in ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)\|Vanity Fair]]'', ''[[Esquire (magazine)\|Esquire]]'', ''[[Mademoiselle (magazine)\|Mademoiselle]]'', ''[[Us (magazine)\|Us]]'', ''[[New York (magazine)\|New York]]'' and ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'', and in 1995 he became a contributing editor at ''[[Rolling Stone]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine \|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> \|title=John Colapinto \|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/john-colapinto \|access-date=September 29, 2014 \|magazine=Rolling Stone \|archive-date=October 22, 2014 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022075932/http://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/john-colapinto \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> \|title=Biography John Colapinto \|url=http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/john-colapinto \|access-date=September 29, 2014 \|website=Book Reporter \|publisher=Real Talk publishing}}</ref>

			He also wrote the screenplay for the 1990 Canadian short film ''[[The Star Turn]]''.

	==Writing==		==Writing==
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	In 1998, Colapinto published a 20,000 word feature story in ''Rolling Stone'' titled "The True Story of John/Joan", an account of [[David Reimer]], who had undergone a sex change in infancy following a botched [[circumcision]] in which he lost his penis. The medical experiment had been long heralded as a success, but was, in fact, a failure. The story, which detailed not only Reimer's tortured life, but the medical scandal surrounding its cover-up, won the ASME Award for reporting. In 2000, Colapinto published a book-length account of the case, ''As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl''. The book was a ''New York Times'' bestseller and the film rights were bought by director [[Peter Jackson]]. Reimer took his life in 2004.		In 1998, Colapinto published a 20,000 word feature story in ''Rolling Stone'' titled "The True Story of John/Joan", an account of [[David Reimer]], who had undergone a sex change in infancy following a botched [[circumcision]] in which he lost his penis. The medical experiment had been long heralded as a success, but was, in fact, a failure. The story, which detailed not only Reimer's tortured life, but the medical scandal surrounding its cover-up, won the ASME Award for reporting. In 2000, Colapinto published a book-length account of the case, ''As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl''. The book was a ''New York Times'' bestseller and the film rights were bought by director [[Peter Jackson]]. Reimer took his life in 2004.

	Colapinto also wrote a novel, ''About the Author'', a tale of literary envy and theft. It was published in August 2001 and was a number six pick on the [[Book Sense]] 76 list of best novels of the season; it was a nominee for the [[International Dublin Literary Award]] and for a number of years was under option by [[DreamWorks Pictures\|DreamWorks]] where playwright [[Patrick Marber]] wrote a screen adaptation. The film rights to the novel ~~have since been~~ acquired by producer [[Scott Rudin]].		Colapinto also wrote a novel, ''About the Author'', a tale of literary envy and theft. It was published in August 2001 and was a number six pick on the [[Book Sense]] 76 list of best novels of the season; it was a nominee for the [[International Dublin Literary Award]] and for a number of years was under option by [[DreamWorks Pictures\|DreamWorks]] where playwright [[Patrick Marber]] wrote a screen adaptation. The film rights to the novel were acquired by producer [[Scott Rudin]] but a shootable screenplay failed to materialize and Rudin allowed his option to lapse. In the spring of 2023, the novel was optioned by Tr-Star Pictures and is, as of 2024, in development at that studio.

	Colapinto's second novel, ''Undone'', a satire hingeing on faux-incest, was published by HarperCollins Canada in April 2015. It was rejected by 41 US publishers and every publisher in Europe on grounds that it was too challenging in its subject matter. A newspaper feature story in ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' gave an account of the novel's universal rejection in Colapinto's adopted country.<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/why-wont-american-publishers-touch-john-colapintos-new-novel/article24216965/ "Why won't American publishers touch John Colapinto's new novel?"]. ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', May 1, 2015.</ref> A highly positive review in the ''[[Toronto Star]]'' called ''Undone'' "an equally inventive but bolder novel" than Colapinto's debut; [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/john-colapintos-controversial-new-novel-undone-enthralls-and-horrifies-simultaneously/article24336018/ a review in the Globe and Mail] called the novel "a noir that, like Francine Prose's ''Blue Angel'' and Philip Roth's ''American Pastoral'', details the unravelling of the moral American man and his world."		Colapinto's second novel, ''Undone'', a satire hingeing on faux-incest, was published by HarperCollins Canada in April 2015. It was rejected by 41 US publishers and every publisher in Europe on grounds that it was too challenging in its subject matter. A newspaper feature story in ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' gave an account of the novel's universal rejection in Colapinto's adopted country.<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/why-wont-american-publishers-touch-john-colapintos-new-novel/article24216965/ "Why won't American publishers touch John Colapinto's new novel?"]. ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', May 1, 2015.</ref> A highly positive review in the ''[[Toronto Star]]'' called ''Undone'' "an equally inventive but bolder novel" than Colapinto's debut; [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/john-colapintos-controversial-new-novel-undone-enthralls-and-horrifies-simultaneously/article24336018/ a review in the Globe and Mail] called the novel "a noir that, like Francine Prose's ''Blue Angel'' and Philip Roth's ''American Pastoral'', details the unravelling of the moral American man and his world."
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	In June 2015, Colapinto spoke about the novel, and its difficult publishing history, on [http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-friday-june-12-2015-1.3109909/why-was-john-colapinto-s-undone-rejected-by-40-publishers-1.3109971\|on the CBC Radio program "q"]:		In June 2015, Colapinto spoke about the novel, and its difficult publishing history, on [http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-friday-june-12-2015-1.3109909/why-was-john-colapinto-s-undone-rejected-by-40-publishers-1.3109971\|on the CBC Radio program "q"]:

	The novel ~~has since been~~ acquired by independent publisher, Soft Skull Press, a division of Counterpoint Press, based in Berkeley, California. ''Undone'' ~~will be~~ published in April 2016 in the United States. Trade magazine ''[[Booklist]]'' gave the novel a starred review that said: "Cannily over the top in its comic depravity and magnetizing in its sympathy, Colapinto's battle royal of innocence and evil, blindness and illumination, betrayal and love will thrill those who enjoy subversively erotic and suspenseful fiction of the finest execution and most cutting implications."		The novel was eventually acquired by independent publisher, Soft Skull Press, a division of Counterpoint Press, based in Berkeley, California. ''Undone'' was published in April 2016 in the United States. Trade magazine ''[[Booklist]]'' gave the novel a starred review that said: "Cannily over the top in its comic depravity and magnetizing in its sympathy, Colapinto's battle royal of innocence and evil, blindness and illumination, betrayal and love will thrill those who enjoy subversively erotic and suspenseful fiction of the finest execution and most cutting implications."

	In April 2016, ''The New York Times'' published an article, "Colapinto's Complaint," that described the novel as reviving the "male-centric literary sex novel."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Kurutz \|first1=Steven \|title=John Colapinto Revives the Male-Centric Literary Sex Novel \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/fashion/mens-style/john-colapinto-literary-sex-novel-undone.html \|work=The New York Times \|access-date=May 9, 2020 \|date=April 7, 2016}}</ref> The article sparked a two-day tweet storm in which Colapinto was excoriated for resurrecting the "male gaze" in fiction.		In April 2016, ''The New York Times'' published an article, "Colapinto's Complaint," that described the novel as reviving the "male-centric literary sex novel."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Kurutz \|first1=Steven \|title=John Colapinto Revives the Male-Centric Literary Sex Novel \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/fashion/mens-style/john-colapinto-literary-sex-novel-undone.html \|work=The New York Times \|access-date=May 9, 2020 \|date=April 7, 2016}}</ref> The article sparked a two-day tweet storm in which Colapinto was excoriated for resurrecting the "male gaze" in fiction.
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	==Awards and nominations==		==Awards and nominations==
	Colapinto~~'s Guccione story for ''Rolling Stone'' was a finalist~~ for the [[National Magazine Awards\|ASME Award]] in ~~profile writing in 2004~~.		Colapinto won the [[Canadian National Magazine Award]] for "All the Right Moves" (about chess prodigy Jeff Sarwer and his unconventional upbringing): "Saturday Night Magazine," 1987.

			He received an [[National Magazine Awards\|ASME Award]] for reporting "The True Story of John/Joan" in <nowiki>''</nowiki>''Rolling Stone''.

	~~ASME~~ Award for ~~reporting~~: ~~"The True Story of John~~/~~Joan" in ''''Rolling Stone''~~.		''As Nature Made Him'' was a finalist for the 2001 [[Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature]].<ref>{{Cite web \|last= \|first= \|date=July 10, 2001 \|title=13th Annual Lambda Literary Awards \|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2001/07/lambda-literary-awards-2000/ \|access-date=2026-01-04 \|website=Lambda Literary \|language=en-US}}</ref>

	~~Canadian National Magazine~~ Award~~: "All the Right Moves" (about chess prodigy Jeff Sarwer and his unconventional upbringing): "Saturday Night Magazine," 1987~~.		Colapinto's Guccione story for ''Rolling Stone'' was a finalist for the ASME Award in profile writing in 2004.

	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
	Colapinto lives in New York City's [[Upper East Side]]. He is married to Donna Mehalko, fashion illustrator, artist, and author of "Mr Wrong, a Users Guide", a humorous take on dating that recommends ways to use Mr Wrong for maximum benefit while waiting for Mr Right;<ref>{{Cite book\|isbn = 0688170250\|url-access = registration\|url = https://archive.org/details/mrwrongusersguid00walk \|title=Mr. Wrong: A User's Guide \|author=Cindy Walker \|year = 2000\|access-date=May 9, 2020}}</ref> they have one son.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.bookreporter.com/authors/john-colapinto\|title=John Colapinto \| Bookreporter.com\|website=www.bookreporter.com\|accessdate=July 3, 2023}}</ref>		Colapinto lives in New York City's [[Upper East Side]]. He is married to Donna Mehalko, fashion illustrator, artist, and author of "Mr Wrong, a Users Guide", a humorous take on dating that recommends ways to use Mr Wrong for maximum benefit while waiting for Mr Right;<ref>{{Cite book\|isbn = 0688170250\|url-access = registration\|url = https://archive.org/details/mrwrongusersguid00walk \|title=Mr. Wrong: A User's Guide \|author=Cindy Walker \|year = 2000\| publisher=HarperCollins Publishers \|access-date=May 9, 2020}}</ref> they have one son.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.bookreporter.com/authors/john-colapinto\|title=John Colapinto \| Bookreporter.com\|website=www.bookreporter.com\|accessdate=July 3, 2023}}</ref>

	He plays keyboards and sings with the Sequoias, a band made up mostly of New York magazine journalists.		He plays keyboards and sings with the Sequoias, a band made up mostly of New York magazine journalists.
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	===Books===		===Books===
	*{{cite book \|last=Colapinto \|first=John \|title=As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl \|url=https://archive.org/details/asnaturemadehim00john \|url-access=registration \|year=2000\|isbn=9780060929596 }}		*{{cite book \|last=Colapinto \|first=John \|title=As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl \|url=https://archive.org/details/asnaturemadehim00john \|url-access=registration \|year=2000\|publisher=Harper Collins \|isbn=9780060929596 }}
	*{{cite book \|last=Colapinto \|first=John \|author-mask=1 \|title=About the Author: A Novel \|url=https://archive.org/details/aboutauthornovel00cola_2 \|url-access=registration \|year=2001\|publisher=HarperCollins \|isbn=9780060194178 }}		*{{cite book \|last=Colapinto \|first=John \|author-mask=1 \|title=About the Author: A Novel \|url=https://archive.org/details/aboutauthornovel00cola_2 \|url-access=registration \|year=2001\|publisher=HarperCollins \|isbn=9780060194178 }}
	*{{cite book \|last=Colapinto \|first=John \|author-mask=1 \|title=Undone: A Novel \|year=2016\|title-link=Undone (Colapinto novel) }}		*{{cite book \|last=Colapinto \|first=John \|author-mask=1 \|title=Undone: A Novel \|year=2016\|title-link=Undone (Colapinto novel) }}
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	==External links==		==External links==
	* [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/john_colapinto/search?contributorName=john%20colapinto Portrait photo] in ''[[The New Yorker]]'''s contributor's profile		* [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/john_colapinto/search?contributorName=john%20colapinto Portrait photo] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719034721/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/john_colapinto/search?contributorName=john%20colapinto \|date=July 19, 2014 }} in ''[[The New Yorker]]'''s contributor's profile
	* [https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/john-colapinto/all Colapinto staff articles] in ''The New Yorker''		* [https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/john-colapinto/all Colapinto staff articles] in ''The New Yorker''

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{{Infobox writer
| name = John Colapinto
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958}}
| birth_place = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| genre = [[Fiction]], [[journalism]]
| occupation = Journalist, author, novelist, staff writer
| notable_works = ''[[As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl]]''
| spouse = Donna Mehalko
| children = 1 son
}}

'''John Colapinto''' (born in 1958) is a Canadian journalist, author and novelist and a staff writer at ''[[The New Yorker]]''. In 2000, he wrote the ''[[New York Times]]'' bestseller ''[[As Nature Made Him|As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl]]'', which exposed the details of the [[David Reimer]] case, a boy who had undergone a sex change in infancy—a medical experiment long heralded as a success, but which was, in fact, a failure.

==Career==

Before working on staff at ''The New Yorker'', Colapinto's articles appeared in ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', ''[[Mademoiselle (magazine)|Mademoiselle]]'', ''[[Us (magazine)|Us]]'', ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' and ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'', and in 1995 he became a contributing editor at ''[[Rolling Stone]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |author= |title=John Colapinto |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/john-colapinto |access-date=September 29, 2014 |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-date=October 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022075932/http://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/john-colapinto |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author= |title=Biography John Colapinto |url=http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/john-colapinto |access-date=September 29, 2014 |website=Book Reporter |publisher=Real Talk publishing}}</ref>

==Writing==
For ''Rolling Stone'', Colapinto wrote feature stories on a variety of subjects including AIDS, kids and guns, heroin in the music business, and ''Penthouse'' magazine creator, [[Bob Guccione]].

In 1998, Colapinto published a 20,000 word feature story in ''Rolling Stone'' titled "The True Story of John/Joan", an account of [[David Reimer]], who had undergone a sex change in infancy following a botched [[circumcision]] in which he lost his penis. The medical experiment had been long heralded as a success, but was, in fact, a failure. The story, which detailed not only Reimer's tortured life, but the medical scandal surrounding its cover-up, won the ASME Award for reporting. In 2000, Colapinto published a book-length account of the case, ''As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl''. The book was a ''New York Times'' bestseller and the film rights were bought by director [[Peter Jackson]]. Reimer took his life in 2004.

Colapinto also wrote a novel, ''About the Author'', a tale of literary envy and theft. It was published in August 2001 and was a number six pick on the [[Book Sense]] 76 list of best novels of the season; it was a nominee for the [[International Dublin Literary Award]] and for a number of years was under option by [[DreamWorks Pictures|DreamWorks]] where playwright [[Patrick Marber]] wrote a screen adaptation. The film rights to the novel have since been acquired by producer [[Scott Rudin]].

Colapinto's second novel, ''Undone'', a satire hingeing on faux-incest, was published by HarperCollins Canada in April 2015. It was rejected by 41 US publishers and every publisher in Europe on grounds that it was too challenging in its subject matter. A newspaper feature story in ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' gave an account of the novel's universal rejection in Colapinto's adopted country.<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/why-wont-american-publishers-touch-john-colapintos-new-novel/article24216965/ "Why won't American publishers touch John Colapinto's new novel?"]. ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', May 1, 2015.</ref> A highly positive review in the ''[[Toronto Star]]'' called ''Undone'' "an equally inventive but bolder novel" than Colapinto's debut; [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/john-colapintos-controversial-new-novel-undone-enthralls-and-horrifies-simultaneously/article24336018/ a review in the Globe and Mail] called the novel "a noir that, like Francine Prose's ''Blue Angel'' and Philip Roth's ''American Pastoral'', details the unravelling of the moral American man and his world."

In June 2015, Colapinto spoke about the novel, and its difficult publishing history, on [http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-friday-june-12-2015-1.3109909/why-was-john-colapinto-s-undone-rejected-by-40-publishers-1.3109971|on the CBC Radio program "q"]:

The novel has since been acquired by independent publisher, Soft Skull Press, a division of Counterpoint Press, based in Berkeley, California. ''Undone'' will be published in April 2016 in the United States. Trade magazine ''[[Booklist]]'' gave the novel a starred review that said: "Cannily over the top in its comic depravity and magnetizing in its sympathy, Colapinto's battle royal of innocence and evil, blindness and illumination, betrayal and love will thrill those who enjoy subversively erotic and suspenseful fiction of the finest execution and most cutting implications."

In April 2016, ''The New York Times'' published an article, "Colapinto's Complaint," that described the novel as reviving the "male-centric literary sex novel."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kurutz |first1=Steven |title=John Colapinto Revives the Male-Centric Literary Sex Novel |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/fashion/mens-style/john-colapinto-literary-sex-novel-undone.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=May 9, 2020 |date=April 7, 2016}}</ref> The article sparked a two-day tweet storm in which Colapinto was excoriated for resurrecting the "male gaze" in fiction.

As a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'', Colapinto has written about subjects as diverse as [[medicinal leeches]]; [[Sotheby's]] auctioneer [[Tobias Meyer]]; fashion designers [[Karl Lagerfeld]] and [[Rick Owens]]; the [[Pirahã language|linguistic oddities]] of the [[Pirahã people]] (an Amazonian tribe); and [[Paul McCartney]].<ref>{{cite magazine| last=Colapinto| first=John| title=When I'm Sixty-Four| magazine=The New Yorker| date=June 4, 2007| url=https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/04/070604fa_fact_colapinto| access-date=February 24, 2012| archive-date=October 2, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002085120/http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/04/070604fa_fact_colapinto| url-status=dead}}{{subscription required}}</ref> His piece on the Pirahã was anthologized in ''The Best American Science and Nature Writing'' (2008); his ''New Yorker'' story about [[retail loss prevention]] was included in ''The Best American Crime Reporting'' (2009);<ref name="ToobinPenzler2009">{{cite book |last1=Toobin |first1=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Toobin |last2=Penzler |first2=Otto |last3=Cook|first3=Thomas H. |title=The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UUfaUWV1XpIC&pg=PA275 |access-date=April 8, 2011|date=September 2, 2009 |publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-149084-2|pages=275–}}</ref> and his ''New Yorker'' profile of neuroscientist [[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran|V.S. Ramachandran]] was selected by [[Freeman Dyson]] for inclusion in ''The Best American Science and Nature Writing''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Colapinto |first1=John |date=2010 |title=The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010 |editor1-last=Dyson |editor1-first=Freeman |editor1-link=Freeman Dyson |editor2-last=Folger |editor2-first=Tim |editor2-link=Tim Folger |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aN6SxmXodLkC |location=Boston, Mass. |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]] |page=108 |series=The best American series |chapter=Brain Games |isbn=9780547327846 |access-date=September 27, 2014}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations==
Colapinto's Guccione story for ''Rolling Stone'' was a finalist for the [[National Magazine Awards|ASME Award]] in profile writing in 2004.

ASME Award for reporting: "The True Story of John/Joan" in ''''Rolling Stone''.

Canadian National Magazine Award: "All the Right Moves" (about chess prodigy Jeff Sarwer and his unconventional upbringing): "Saturday Night Magazine," 1987.

==Personal life==
Colapinto lives in New York City's [[Upper East Side]]. He is married to Donna Mehalko, fashion illustrator, artist, and author of "Mr Wrong, a Users Guide", a humorous take on dating that recommends ways to use Mr Wrong for maximum benefit while waiting for Mr Right;<ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 0688170250|url-access = registration|url = https://archive.org/details/mrwrongusersguid00walk |title=Mr. Wrong: A User's Guide |author=Cindy Walker |year = 2000|access-date=May 9, 2020}}</ref> they have one son.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bookreporter.com/authors/john-colapinto|title=John Colapinto | Bookreporter.com|website=www.bookreporter.com|accessdate=July 3, 2023}}</ref>

He plays keyboards and sings with the Sequoias, a band made up mostly of New York magazine journalists.

==Bibliography==

===Books===
*{{cite book |last=Colapinto |first=John |title=As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl |url=https://archive.org/details/asnaturemadehim00john |url-access=registration |year=2000|isbn=9780060929596 }}
*{{cite book |last=Colapinto |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=About the Author: A Novel |url=https://archive.org/details/aboutauthornovel00cola_2 |url-access=registration |year=2001|publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=9780060194178 }}
*{{cite book |last=Colapinto |first=John |author-mask=1 |title=Undone: A Novel |year=2016|title-link=Undone (Colapinto novel) }}
*{{cite book |last=Colapinto |first=John| isbn=978-1982128746|publisher=Simon & Schuster|title=This is the Voice|year=2021}}

===Essays and reporting===
*{{cite magazine |last=Colapinto |first=John |date=March 15, 2010 |title=New note |department=Profiles |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |volume=86 |issue=4 |pages=32–39|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/03/15/new-note |access-date=March 19, 2015}} Profile of [[Esperanza Spalding]].
*{{cite magazine |last=Colapinto |first=John |author-mask=1 |date=March 4, 2013 |title=Giving voice: a surgeon pioneers methods to help singers sing again |department=Dept. of Arts and Sciences |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |volume=89 |issue=3 |pages=48–57 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/04/giving-voice |access-date=May 8, 2015}}
*{{cite magazine |last=Colapinto |first=John |author-mask=1 |date=December 22–29, 2014 |title=Material question: graphene may be the most remarkable substance ever discovered. But what's it for? |department=Annals of Innovation |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |volume=90 |issue=41 |pages=50–63 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/material-question |access-date=March 19, 2015}}
*{{cite magazine |author=Colapinto, John |author-mask=1 |date=May 18, 2015 |title=Lighting the brain: Karl Deisseroth and the optogenetics breakthrough |department=Profiles |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |volume=91 |issue=13 |pages=74–83 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/lighting-the-brain |access-date=August 5, 2015}}

===Critical studies and reviews===
*{{cite news |last=Medley |first=Mark |title=Why won't American publishers touch John Colapinto's new novel? |work=The Globe and Mail |date=May 1, 2015 |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/why-wont-american-publishers-touch-john-colapintos-new-novel/article24216965/ |access-date=August 5, 2015}} Review of ''Undone''.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/john_colapinto/search?contributorName=john%20colapinto Portrait photo] in ''[[The New Yorker]]'''s contributor's profile
* [https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/john-colapinto/all Colapinto staff articles] in ''The New Yorker''

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