Since her college days in the early 1960s Rita Mae Brown has been an advocate for the LGBTQ community. Long before it was known by that shorthand descriptor..
She was also active in the anti-war movement, the feminist cause, and the lesbian liberation effort.
She holds two doctorates, in literature and political science.
But she is also widely known for her fiction, her “cozy” mysteries as well as her standalone novels. Her book Rubyfruit Jungle, published in 1973, has become a literary classic.
I met her in 1993, when we had the first of what would be many conversations in the years that followed. We talked about her novel Venus Envy, the story of a young woman who makes one of those life choices that changes everything – and not always for the better,
So here now, from 1993. Rita Mae Brown.
Rita Mae Brown Is 79. She lives in Virginia.