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Name
  
Ellen Galford


Role
  
Writer

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Awards
  
Lambda Literary Award for Humor

Nominations
  
Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

Books
  
Hatshepsut: The Princess, Fires of Bride, The Dyke and Dybbuk, Moll Cutpurse - her true h, The genealogy handbook

Ellen Galford is an American-born Scottish writer. She was born in the US and migrated to the United Kingdom in 1971, after a brief marriage in New York City. She came out in the mid-1970s. She has lived in Glasgow and London and now lives in Edinburgh with her partner. Her works include four lesbian novels:

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  • Moll Cutpurse, Her True History (1984)
  • The Fires of Bride (1986)
  • Queendom Come (1990)
  • The Dyke and the Dybbuk (1993)

    • Galford was involved in recording Edinburgh's LGBT community history for the Remember When project.

    Awards

  • Winner of the 1994 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian and Gay Humor
  • Finalist for the 1995 American Library Association Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Award for Literature

    • Fans wonder why she has remained silent and not published any new work since the late 1990s.

    References

    Ellen Galford Wikipedia
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