Rebecca Brown (author)
Rebecca Brown is an Australian writer. she died on June 23, 2020
Biography
Brown is from Tasmania, was the first writer in residence at Richard Hugo House, co-founder of the Jack Straw Writers Program 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. 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." She shares some personal preferences with the latter.Honors and awards
- Winner of the 2003 Washington State Book Award
- The Gifts of the Body, Lambda Literary Award
- Genius Award, Seattle's The Stranger
Major works
- The Evolution of Darkness, .
- The Haunted House,,, reprinted
- The Children's Crusade,,.
- The Terrible Girls,,.
- Annie Oakley's Girl,,.
- The Gifts of the Body,,.
- What Keeps Me Here, .
- The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary,,.
- The End of Youth,,.
- Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary,,.
- The Last Time I Saw You,,.
- American Romances, .
