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| '''Sarah Dreher''' was an American ] novelist and playwright, and best known for her award-winning lesbian mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Stoner McTavish. Dreher was born in ] in 1937,<ref>Griffin, Gabriele. ''Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing'', ] (59).</ref> |
'''Sarah Dreher''' (born 1937 — died April 2, 2012<ref>{{cite web|url=http://obits.masslive.com/obituaries/masslive/obituary.aspx?n=Sarah-Dreher&pid=156954574|title=Sarah A. Dreher Obituary: View Sarah Dreher's Obituary by The Republican|publisher=Obits.masslive.com|accessdate=2012-04-14}}</ref>, ]) was an American ] novelist and playwright, and best known for her award-winning lesbian mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Stoner McTavish. Dreher was born in ] in 1937,<ref>Griffin, Gabriele. ''Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing'', ] (59).</ref> | ||
| Her themes include "the anguish of lesbian relationships beginning, ending or mending. Dreher's lesbian protagonists are modern heroes searching for integrity and identity..."<ref>Zimmerman, Bonnie. ''Lesbian Histories and Cultures'', Taylor and Francis (763).</ref> In the resolution of her mysteries, solutions other than resorting to traditional justice system intervention are part of the exploration of society outside the existing social paradigm. | Her themes include "the anguish of lesbian relationships beginning, ending or mending. Dreher's lesbian protagonists are modern heroes searching for integrity and identity..."<ref>Zimmerman, Bonnie. ''Lesbian Histories and Cultures'', Taylor and Francis (763).</ref> In the resolution of her mysteries, solutions other than resorting to traditional justice system intervention are part of the exploration of society outside the existing social paradigm. | ||
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| Occupation | Novelist, Playwright, Psychologist |
| Period | 20th century |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Subject | Lesbian fiction |
| Literary movement | LGBT Literature |
Sarah Dreher (born 1937 — died April 2, 2012, Amherst, Massachusetts) was an American lesbian novelist and playwright, and best known for her award-winning lesbian mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Stoner McTavish. Dreher was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania in 1937,
Her themes include "the anguish of lesbian relationships beginning, ending or mending. Dreher's lesbian protagonists are modern heroes searching for integrity and identity..." In the resolution of her mysteries, solutions other than resorting to traditional justice system intervention are part of the exploration of society outside the existing social paradigm.
Dreher has contributed essays and writings to a number of projects, including Off the Rag: Lesbians Writing about Menopause by Lee Lynch and Akia Woods, "Waiting for Stonewall" in Sexual Practice/Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism, and a contributed chapter to They Wrote the Book: Thirteen Women Mystery Writers Tell All.
In addition to writing, Dreher was a clinical psychologist in private practice, graduating first from Wellesley College, then gaining a Ph.D. in psychology from Purdue University.
Work
Books:
- Solitaire and Brahms (1997) . New Victoria
- Stoner McTavish Series, New Victoria
- Stoner McTavish (1985)
- Something Shady (1986)
- Gray Magic (1987)
- Otherworld (1993)
- Bad Company (1995)
- Shaman's Moon (1998)
- Love Murders (unpublished)
- Lesbian Stages: Plays by Sarah Dreher. New Victoria. (1988),
- Contains:
- Alumnae News: The Doris Day Years
- Base Camp
- Backward, Turn Backward
- This Brooding Sky
- Hollandia ’45
- Contains:
Additional Plays:
- 8 x 10 Glossy
- Ruby Christmas
Awards
- Shaman's Moon, 1998 Lambda Literary Foundation winner, Mystery
- A Captive in Time, 1990 Lambda Literary Foundation finalist, Mystery
- Medalist, 2005 The Alice B Readers Award
See also
- Markowitz, Judith A, foreword by Katherine V. Forrest. The Gay Detective Novel (MacFarland)
- Munt, Sally. Murder by the Book?: Feminism and the Crime Novel, 1990, (Routledge)
- Zimmerman, Bonnie. Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Literature 1969-1989, 1992 (Beacon)
References
- "Sarah A. Dreher Obituary: View Sarah Dreher's Obituary by The Republican". Obits.masslive.com. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
- Griffin, Gabriele. Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing, Routledge (59).
- Zimmerman, Bonnie. Lesbian Histories and Cultures, Taylor and Francis (763).
- Wolfe, Susan J. and Penelope, Julia. Sexual Practice/Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1993
- Windrath, Helen (editor), They Wrote the Book: Thirteen Women Mystery Writers Tell All, 2000 Spinsters Ink
- Pollack, Sandra and Denise D. Knight (Editors). Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, 1993 (p. 186-191)