Rubyfruit Jungle is the first and most popular novel written by Brown. In the 1970s, she became a founding member of a lesbian feminist newspaper collective in Washington, D.C., named The Furies Collectives. Brown also had an administrative position in the National Organization for Women and other lesbian organizations. In the 1960s, she was also active in the feminist movement, Gay Liberation movement ant the anti-war movement. When she attended the University of Florida at Gainesville in 1964, Brown became active in the American Civil Rights movement. The screenplay was given a limited theatrical release because the producers liked the screenplay and wanted to play it seriously.īrown has been highly active in political movements. While Brown lived in Los Angeles she parodied the slasher genre by writing a screenplay named Sleepless Nights (later retitled “The Slumber Party Massacre”). D.C.īrown lived in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles from 1973 to 1977 when she bought a farm in Charlottesville, Virginia where she still lives today. Brown also has a doctorate in political science from the institute for Policy Studies in Washington. in literature from Union Institute & Univeristy in 1976. Subsequently, she received another degree in cinematography from the New York School of Visual Arts. In the meantime, she attended New York Univeristy where she received a degree in English and Classics. Later she enrolled at Broward Community College with the hope of transferring to a more tolerant four-year institution.īetween the years, 19, Brown lived in New York City where she sometimes was homeless. However, she was expelled in the spring of 1964 because the administrators of the racially segregated university did not like her participating in the civil rights movement. In late 1962, Brown attended the University of Florida at Gainesville on a scholarship. Instead, Brown was raised by her mother’s cousin Julia Brown and her husband Ralph who lived in York, Pennsylvania, and later in Ft. She was left at an orphanage because her mother was too young to take care of her. Brown was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania to an unmarried, teenage mother and her mother’s married boyfriend. The novel dealt with lesbian themes in an explicit manner unusual for the time when the novel was written. She is mostly known for her first novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Rita Mae Brown, born 28 November 1944, is a prolific American writer and feminist.
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