Rebecca Brown (author)
Encyclopedia
Rebecca Brown is an American
lesbian
author whose work has contributed significantly to contemporary gay and lesbian literature
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, co-founder of the Jack Straw Writers Program and now serves as the creative director of literature at Centrum in Port Townsend. Brown's best-known work is her novel The Gifts of the Body, winner of a Lambda Literary Award
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United States
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lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
author whose work has contributed significantly to contemporary gay and lesbian literature
LGBT literature
Gay literature is a collective term for literature produced by or for the LGBT community, or which involves characters, plot lines or themes portraying male homosexual behavior.-Subgenres:...
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Biography
Brown is from Seattle, was the first writer in residence at Richard Hugo HouseRichard Hugo House
- About :Hugo House was founded in founded in 1997 by Linda Jaech, Frances McCue, and Andrea Lewis. These three writers believed Seattle needed a center for local writers and readers to find a community and create new work...
, co-founder of the Jack Straw Writers Program and now serves as the creative director of literature at Centrum in Port Townsend. Brown's best-known work is her novel The Gifts of the Body, winner of a Lambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award...
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Honors and awards
- Winner of the 2003 Washington State Book Award
- The Gifts of the BodyThe Gifts of the BodyThe Gifts of the Body is a series of short stories written by Rebecca Brown published by HarperCollins. It is narrated by a caregiver for various patients with AIDS. Each of the chapters could be viewed by themselves, but can also be connected to create one story...
, Lambda Literary Award - Genius Award, Seattle's The Stranger
Major works
- The Evolution of Darkness, (1984)
- The Haunted House, (1986)
- The Children's Crusade, (1989)
- The Terrible Girls, (City LightsCity LightsCity Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It also has the leads Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Although "talking" pictures were on the rise since 1928, City Lights was immediately popular. Today, it is thought of...
, 1992) - Annie Oakley's Girl, (City LightsCity LightsCity Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It also has the leads Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Although "talking" pictures were on the rise since 1928, City Lights was immediately popular. Today, it is thought of...
, 1993) - The Gifts of the Body, (HarperCollinsHarperCollinsHarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
, 1995) - What Keeps Me Here, (1996)
- The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, (City LightsCity LightsCity Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It also has the leads Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Although "talking" pictures were on the rise since 1928, City Lights was immediately popular. Today, it is thought of...
, 1998) - The End of Youth, (City LightsCity LightsCity Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It also has the leads Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Although "talking" pictures were on the rise since 1928, City Lights was immediately popular. Today, it is thought of...
, 2003) - Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, (University of Wisconsin PressUniversity of Wisconsin PressThe University of Wisconsin Press is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals. It primarily publishes work by scholars from the global academic community but also serves the citizens of Wisconsin by publishing important books about Wisconsin, the Upper Midwest, and...
, 2003) - The Last Time I Saw You, (City LightsCity LightsCity Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It also has the leads Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Although "talking" pictures were on the rise since 1928, City Lights was immediately popular. Today, it is thought of...
, 2006) - The Haunted House, (City LightsCity LightsCity Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It also has the leads Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Although "talking" pictures were on the rise since 1928, City Lights was immediately popular. Today, it is thought of...
, 2007) - American Romances, (City LightsCity LightsCity Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It also has the leads Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Although "talking" pictures were on the rise since 1928, City Lights was immediately popular. Today, it is thought of...
, 2009) ISBN 978-0872864986.