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Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an Americanwriter. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle.
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It was published in 1973 and was a story about a young lesbian woman. At the time, it was quite unusual for novels to be about lesbian themes. Brown is also a mystery writer and an Emmy-nominated screenwriter.
Early life
[change | change source]Brown was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Florida.
In 2004 she was living outside Charlottesville, Virginia.
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In the 1960s, Brown went to the University of Florida but transferred.[1] She moved to New York and went to New York University, where she got a degree in classics and English. Later she got another degree in cinematography from the New York School of Visual Arts.
She also got a doctorate in political science from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.[2]
Activism
[change | change source]In the 1960s, Brown started to get involved in politi