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Katherine V. Forrest (born 1939) is a Canadian-born American writer, best known for her novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield. Her books have won and been finalists for Lambda Literary Award twelve times, as well as other awards. She has been referred to by some "a founding mother of lesbian fiction writing."
"I came from nothing," Forrest said. "I came from a father who made no money. He was a playwright and then a writer, and even though he published a lot of books, I was a complete scholarship student all the way through." [1] [2] Forrest attended Choate Rosemary Hall, a private school in Wallingford, Connecticut, on a scholarship, graduating in ...
The first Forest of Reading Awards program, the Silver Birch Awards program, was launched in 1994. It targeted children in grades 4–6 and focused on both fiction and non-fiction books. As the program gained traction, the Silver Birch Award attracted the attention of principals and teachers who encouraged its adoption in ever-widening circles ...
A deeply personal advocacy piece, “The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping” becomes messy at times over its three chapters, although in a way, that’s part of its power. Director Katherine ...
Katherine V. Forrest won the Scifi/Fantasy/Horror award for Daughters of an Emerald Dusk in 2005 and the Pioneer Award in 2013 in addition to her five Lesbian Mystery awards. Dorothy Allison received both the Lesbian Small Press and Lesbian Fiction awards for Trash: Short Stories in 1989 , and the Lesbian Studies award for Skin in 1995 , as ...
The Program director Katherine Kubler talks about her life now, her relationship with her dad and stepmom and the lifelong effects of The Academy At Ivy Ridge. 'The Program' director on exposing ...
Spinsters Ink was founded by Brady and McDaniel and moved to San Francisco in 1982, where it was purchased by Sherry Thomas. [2]In 1980, Spinsters Ink released a call to readers and bookstores in Feminist Bookstores Newsletter seeking donations to fund the release of the press's next two titles, The Cancer Journals by Audre Lourde and Lynn Strongin's first novel Bones & Kim. [3]
Miss Alexandra Katherine Climpson – enquiry agent employed by Wimsey; Miss Agatha Dawson (deceased) – wealthy woman who had died suddenly some time before the book opens; Miss Mary Whittaker – Miss Dawson's great-niece, the granddaughter of her sister; Dr Edward Carr – Miss Dawson's physician