Rita Mae Brown (1944)
Rita Mae Brown is a U.S. writer and playwright. She is best known for her
semiautobiographical, picaresque novel "Rubyfruit Jungle" (1973), an adventure
story about growing up as a lesbian in America.
Born on November 28 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, Ms. Brown grew up in Florida and
now lives outside Charlottesville, Virginia. She has a degree in Classics and
English from New York University and a doctorate in Political Science from the
Institute For Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Brown has published several books of poems, eleven novels, six mysteries
with her cat, Sneaky Pie, and a writer's manual. She has been twice nominated
for an Emmy, for her scripts "I Love Liberty" and "The Long Hot Summer". Other
books: "The Hand that Cradles the Rock" (1971), "Songs to a Handsome Woman"
(1973), "In Her Day" (1976), "Six of One" (1978), "A Plain Brown Rapper" (1976),
"Sudden Death" (1983), "Southern Discomfort" (1982), "High Hearts" (1986), "Bingo"
(1988), "Starting From Scratch" (1988), "Wish You Were Here" (1990), "Rest in
Pieces" (1992), "Venus Envy" (1993), "Cat's Eyewitness", "Whisker of Evil", "The
Tail of the Tip-Off".
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