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Rita Mae Brown
American writer, activist, and feminist (born 1944)
Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-ageautobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle.
Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns and criticized the marginalization of lesbians within feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015.
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Biography
Early life
Brown was born in 1944 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, to an unmarried teenage mother and her mother's married boyfriend. Brown's birth mother left her at an orphanage. Her mother's cousin, Julia Brown, and her husband, Ralph, retrieved the newborn Brown from the orphanage,[1] and raised her as their own in York, Pennsylvania, and later in Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida.[2] Julia and Ralph Brown were active Republicans in their local party.[3]
Education
Starting in late 1962, Brown attended the Uni