Rebecca Brown (author)

Rebecca Brown is an American lesbian author whose work has contributed significantly to contemporary gay and lesbian literature.

Biography

Brown is from Seattle, was the first writer in residence at Richard Hugo House, co-founder of the Jack Straw Writers Program and now serves as the creative director of literature at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington. Brown's best-known work is her novel The Gifts of the Body, winner of a Lambda Literary Award. Rebecca Brown is also a faculty advisor in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.

Brown’s diverse oeuvre contains collections of essays and short stories, a fictionalized autobiography, a modern bestiary, a memoir in the guise of a medical dictionary, a libretto for a dance opera, a play, and various kinds of fantasy. Brown has "a uniquely recognizable voice, writing as she does in a stark style that combines the minimalism of Ernest Hemingway with some of the incantatory rhythms of Gertrude Stein."

Honors and awards

• Winner of the 2003 Washington State Book Award
• The Gifts of the Body, Lambda Literary Award
• Genius Award, Seattle's The Stranger

Major works

• The Evolution of Darkness, (1984) ISBN 0-946189-85-4.
• The Haunted House, (Picador, London, 1986), ISBN 978-0-330-29175-0, reprinted (City Lights, 2007) ISBN 0-87286-460-X
• The Children's Crusade, (Seal Press, 1989), ISBN 1-878067-04-4.
• The Terrible Girls, (City Lights, 1992), ISBN 0-87286-266-6.
• Annie Oakley's Girl, (City Lights, 1993), ISBN 0-87286-279-8.
• The Gifts of the Body, (HarperCollins, 1995), ISBN 0-06-092653-8.
• What Keeps Me Here, (Harpercollins, (1996) ISBN 0-06-017440-4.
• The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, (City Lights, 1998), ISBN 0-87286-344-1.
• The End of Youth, (City Lights, 2003), ISBN 0-87286-418-9.
• Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), ISBN 0-299-18970-8.
• The Last Time I Saw You, (City Lights, 2006), ISBN 0-87286-447-2.
• American Romances, (City Lights, 2009) ISBN 978-0-87286-498-6.

External links

• Interview with Brown and writing samples from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Rebecca Brown: Literary Subversions of Homonormalization, which discusses the entire oeuvre of Rebecca Brown
• Brown's articles and reviews for the Seattle newspaper The Stranger