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Name
  
Rebecca Brown


Role
  
Author

Rebecca Brown (author) Rebecca Brown (author)

Awards
  
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

Books
  
Unbroken Curses: Hidden S, The Gifts of the Body, The terrible girls, The end of youth, Excerpts from a Family M

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Rebecca Brown Reads from her book "Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary"


Biography

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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.

Contents

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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." She shares some personal preferences with the latter.

Honors and awards

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

    • Major works

    Rebecca Brown (author) Rebecca Brown (author)
  • 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.

    • References

    Rebecca Brown (author) Wikipedia
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