This relationship became very controversial since both of the women were wellknown and successful.
#RITA MAE BROWN BOOKS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER PROFESSIONAL#
As her professional career took off she also found herself falling in love with tennis star Martina Navr?Ïtilov?Ï. She also went on to cofound the Student Homophile League. In 1971 she cofounded The Furies, a lesbian feminist newspaper collective that stated that heterosexuality was the root of all oppression. She goes on to say that the novel, "parallels aspects of my life, or at least intellectual concerns I had at the time."įor the duration of the 1970s Brown went on to write many more novels.
When the novel was first published, it was said to be autobiographical however, Brown states that her character is fictional. Rubyfruit Jungle was at first rejected by all major publishing companies in New York but was finally published by the small feminist Daughters Press. In New York, Molly goes on to charm a number of women. Soon after, she is booted out of college for moral turpitude, and an unrepentant, penniless Molly moves to New York. She later goes on to attract the head cheerleader of Ft. Molly plays doctor with the boys and loses her virginity to her girlfriend. Molly is born a bastard child and is adopted by a poor southern couple who want something better for their daughter. It is a coming of age story about a lesbian named Molly Bolt. This novel eradicated the stereotype many people had of lesbian women at the time. In 1973 she also published her most notable and controversial novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. During this time she also published two collections of feminist poetry known as The Hand That Cradles the Rock (1971) and Songs to a Handsome Woman (1973). At this point in her life, Brown found herself resigning in February 1970 from NOW due to anti-lesbian comments made by Betty Friedan and NOW's attempt to distance itself from lesbian organizations. Rita Mae Brown's career as an American writer began while she was attending NYU.
In 1973, she went on to receive a PhD from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. Brown continued her education in the New York School of Visual Arts where she received a degree in cinematography. In 1968, she graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in English and the classics. Brown later received a scholarship to New York University (NYU). She became an early member of the National Organization for Women (NOW), from which she was later expelled for insisting on more recognition for lesbian constituents. Once she arrived in New York, she lived in an abandoned car with a man and a cat she named Baby Jesus. It had come to light due to a comment she made to one of her Delta Delta Delta sorority officers, where she openly stated that she did not care whether she fell in love with a man or a woman.Īfter having been expelled, Brown hitchhiked to New York in the summer of 1964.
However, the real reason behind her expulsion was her sexual orientation. Brown was said to have been reprimanded for her involvement in the civil rights movement. Her scholarship was later revoked and she was expelled in 1964. Once Rita Mae Brown graduated from high school, she attended the University of Florida. At the age of fifteen, Brown lost her father and during this same time in her life she began to experiment sexually with both males and females. Throughout her high school years Brown excelled academically and was actively involved in various sports.
At the age of eleven Brown and her family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As a young child, Brown demonstrated an interest in literature and learned to read at the age of three. When Brown was three months old she was adopted by Ralph and Julia Ellen Brown and grew up in York, Pennsylvania. Once having given birth to Rita Mae Brown, her birth mother felt she was unfit to be a parent and decided to turn over her newborn child to an orphanage. Rita Mae Brown was born on November 28, 1944, in Hanover, Pennsylvania, to an unwed eighteen year old girl.
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