Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown , born on November 28th 1944 with Hanover (Pennsylvania), is an American writer E .

Its life

Rita Mae Brown passed her childhood in Florida and saw since 2004 not far from Charlottesville, in Virginia.

In the years 1960, Rita Mae Brown studies at the University of Florida, of which it ends up being excluded to have taken part in a demonstration of defense of the civic rights. After having moved with New York, it obtains at the University of New York which it leaves graduate in English and traditional literature. It also obtained, later, a diploma in cinematography of the New York School off Visual Arts, and a doctorate in political science of Institute for Policy Studies of Washington.

Feminist engagement and lesbian

From the end of the year 1960, Rita Mae Brown turned to the policy. It defended several causes actively: civic rights to the United States, pacifism, release of homosexual, or feminism. It is one of the members founders of the student's League homophile ( Student Homophile League ) and took part in the riots of Stonewall to New York. It occupied an administrative station in the very new National organization of the women ( National Organization for Women - NOW), of which it however resigned in February 1970 following the remarks homophobes of the first president of NOW, Betty Friedan, and of the efforts of NOW to outdistance organizations lesbians.

Rita Mae Brown also played a determining role, in May 1970, in the provocative scandal of the association Lavender Menace, of which it was member, with the second congress for the union of the women, in protest of the remarks of B. Friedan and the exclusion of the lesbians of the feminist movement.

In the beginning of the year 1970, it took part in the creation of The Furies , a feminist newspaper lesbian who affirmed that the heterosexuality was at the origin of any oppression.

Notebook society man

Rita Mae Brown lived inter alia with the tennis player Martina Navrátilová, the actress and écrivaine Fanny Flagg, and Judy Nelson (a Texas miss which it also attended Mr. Navrátilová). For the little story, Rita Mae Brown prefaced the account which makes Judy Nelson of its life and its rupture with Martina Navrátilová, Love Match , published in 1993.

Its work

Its principal works " généralistes" have as a title:

  • Rubyfruit Jungle , 1973; translation: Molly Mello , Albin Michel, 1977. This novel is largely autobiographical

  • In Her Day
  • Six off One
  • Southern Discomfort
  • Sudden Death
  • High Hearts
  • Bingo
  • Starting from Scratch: In Different Kind off Writer' S Manual
  • Come Envy
  • Dolley: In Novel off Dolley Madison in Coils and War
  • Riding Shotgun
  • Rita Will: Memoir off has Literary Rabble-Rouser
  • Loose Lips

Impassioned by the horses, the gun dogs and hunting for the fox, Rita Mae Brown also wrote a series of detective novels whose red wire is a company of hunting for the fox in Virginia, and who counts for the moment the following titles:

  • Outfoxed (2000)

  • Hotspur (2002)
  • Full Cry (2003)
  • The Hunt Ball (2005)
  • The Hounds and the Fury (2006)

Moreover, it signs in 1982 the Scénario of a film of horror , Slumber Party Massacres , which wanted to be a parody of the kind - but the producers preferred to treat it with the first degree.

With Black and white Sneaky Brown

After several novels (above) treating varied sets of themes, more or less autobiographical, Rita Mae Brown starts a series of detective novels whose principal heroin is Mary Minor " Harry" Harristeen, postière of a small town of Virginia, its two she-cats and its bitch. The characteristic of these detective series is that Rita Mae Brown it Co-sign with her striped she-cat Sneaky Pie Brown .

  • Wish You Were Young stag (1990); transl. With your wishes , editions the Mask, 1995.

  • Rest in Parts (1992); transl. selected Pieces , the Mask, 1994.
  • Murder At Monticello (1994); transl. Murder in Monticello , the Mask, 1996.
  • Pay Dirt (1995)
  • Murder, She Meowed (1996); transl. Miauler is not to kill , the Mask, 1998.
  • Murder one the Prowl (1998)
  • Cat one the Scent (1999)
  • Pawing Through the Past (2000)
  • Claws and Effect (2001); transl. Blows of claw , the Mask, 2003.
  • Wrestling ace Cat Edge (2002)
  • The Tail off the Tip-Off (2003)
  • Whisker off Evil (2004)
  • Cat' S Eyewitness (2005)
  • Sour Pus (2006)

Sneaky Pie Brown would be also the single author of Sneaky Pie' S Cookbook for Mystery Lovers , published in 1999.

External bonds

  • Official site

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