Rebecca Brown (author)

Rebecca Brown is an Australian writer.[1] She was the first writer in residence at Hugo House, is co-founder of the Jack Straw Writers Program,[2] 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.[3]

Originally from Tasmania, Brown received her B.A. in English from George Washington University and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia.[4] Brown has taught in the M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont,[5] at the University of Washington Bothell, and at several other colleges and universities.[4]

Brown's works include 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."[6] She shares some personal preferences with the latter.[1]

Honors and awards

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.
  • Not Heaven, Somewhere Else, (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2018) ISBN 978-1939460189.

References
  1. Mudede, Charles (13 October 2005), "Literature: Rebecca Brown", The Stranger, retrieved 16 February 2009
  2. Stadler, Matthew (1999). "Rebecca Brown: The Byronic Woman". Lambda Book Report. 8 (3): 6–8. Archived from the original on 2013-07-04.
  3. "Previous Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  4. "Rebecca Brown - School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences". University of Washington Bothell. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  5. "A Farewell to Rebecca Brown-From Rebecca Brown". Goddard College. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  6. Xhonneux, Lies. Rebecca Brown: Literary Subversions of Homonormalization. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2014, p. 5
  7. "1995 Book Awards" (PDF). Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  8. "The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction". The Publishing Triangle. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
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