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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."
Locations and characters described in the book can be used as foundations on which proper Dalelands scenarios can be built. [14] This is the fifth installment of Volo's guides to the Forgotten Realms. [14] Trenton Webb reviewed Volo's Guide to the Dalelands for Arcane magazine, rating it a 6 out of 10 overall. [14]
"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 ...
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 ...
However prevalent the books were, purchasing and reading them for many women was the equivalent to coming out to the cashier. Author Joan Nestle called them "survival books" and described purchasing them: The act of taking one of these books off the drugstore rack and paying for it at the counter was a frightening and difficult move for most women.
In 1985, shortly before her fifth book was published, she became a full-time writer. [2] She is a member of the Liavek shared-world anthology. In 2009, Wrede donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University .
Katherine Faw (born July 17, 1983), formerly Katherine Faw Morris, is an American writer. Young God , her debut novel, was long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize [ 1 ] and named a best book of the year by The Times Literary Supplement , the Houston Chronicle , [ 2 ] and BuzzFeed .
Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995. Listings by country and region and alphabetical by author; includes bibliography of criticism. Gonzalez, Alexander G., ed. Irish Women Writers: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-313-32883-1