American writer
Rebecca Brown is an Australian writer.[1]
Brown is from Tasmania, was the first writer in residence at Richard Hugo House , 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] Rebecca Brown is also a faculty advisor in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.
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 ." [4] She shares some personal preferences with the latter.[1]
Honors and awards [ edit ]
Winner of the 2003 Washington State Book Award
The Gifts of the Body , Lambda Literary Award
Genius Award, Seattle's The Stranger
Major works [ edit ]
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 [ edit ]
^ a b Mudede, Charles (13 October 2005), "Literature: Rebecca Brown" , The Stranger , retrieved 16 February 2009
^ Stadler, Matthew (1999). "Rebecca Brown: The Byronic Woman" . Lambda Book Report . 8 (3): 6–8. Archived from the original on 2013-07-04.
^ Brown, Rebecca (25 October 2007). "Two pieces from P-I Writer in Residence Rebecca Brown" . Seattle Post-Intelligencer .
^ Xhonneux, Lies. Rebecca Brown: Literary Subversions of Homonormalization . Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2014, p. 5
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