Rebecca Brown

Lies Xhonneux

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Born 1956
Activity 1984-ongoing

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Born in United States
Active in United States

Cultural Identities

LGBTQ

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Rebecca Brown is a Seattle-based lesbian author who is especially known for being a “writer’s writer”. She has been working in the shadows for the past thirty years to compose a challenging and highly rewarding oeuvre, for which the New York author Dale Peck has dubbed her “the greatest secret of American letters”. Yet Brown’s widely translated novel

The Gifts of the Body

(1994), perhaps not coincidentally her least “lesbian” book, is popular with the general reading audience and has been a bestseller in Japan. The novel, which relates the heavily autobiographical and emotionally powerful experiences of a homecare worker assisting people with AIDS in the dying process, won the 1995 Lambda Literary Award.

Rebecca Brown was born in San Diego in 1956. Her father was a navy

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Citation: Xhonneux, Lies. "Rebecca Brown". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 October 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13194, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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