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Books Unbroken Curses: Hidden S, The Gifts of the Body, The terrible girls, The end of youth, Excerpts from a Family M Similar People Motoyuki Shibata, Rebecca Julia Brown, Frank Hammond, Jack T Chick |
Rebecca Brown Reads from her book "Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary"
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.
Contents
- Rebecca Brown Reads from her book Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary
- Biography
- Honors and awards
- Major works
- References

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

Major works
