TY - BOOK AU - Medina,Nico AU - Thomson,Andrew TI - Who is RuPaul? T2 - Who is ...? SN - 9780593222690 PY - 2021///] CY - New York PB - Penguin Workshop KW - RuPaul, KW - Television personalities KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - Female impersonators KW - Drag queens KW - African Americans KW - Biographies KW - lcgft KW - Illustrated works N1 - "An official Who HQ book"--Cover; "An unauthorized biography"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references (page 108); Who is RuPaul? -- "I accept my destiny!" -- "RuPaul is everything" -- Ups and downs -- Queen of Manhattan -- Supermodel of the world -- "Windows of opportunity" -- "Start your engines!" -- "Werk" the world -- Timelines N2 - RuPaul Andre Charles always knew he was meant to be a performer. Even as a young child, he loved to dress up and imitate the glamorous women he saw on television. When he turned fifteen, he began studying theater in a performing arts school in Atlanta and never looked back. Ru developed his drag-queen personality and launched his career in the 1980s. He now hosts and judges the widely popular and long-running show RuPaul's Drag Race, which has raised the profile of the art of drag, and drag queens around the world ER -