Alma Routsong

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Alma Routsong (born November 26, 1924 - † October 4, 1996 ) was an American author. Routsong wrote under the name Isabel Miller .

Alma Routsong was born in Traverse City , Michigan on November 26, 1924. She was the daughter of Carl and Esther Miller Routsong. During the Second World War she served in the organization WAVES of the US Navy and was trained at Farragut at the Idaho Naval Training Center, after which she worked as a nurse. In 1949 Routsong graduated from Michigan State University with an art degree .

Routsong published her first two novels under her own name, then chose the writer name Isabel Miller for her further work . This name is an anagram of the word Lesbia and her mother's maiden name. Between 1968 and 1971, Routsong worked as an editor at Columbia University. From the mid-1970s to 1986 she was employed as an editor for Time Magazine . Routsong was an officer in the New York branch of the Daughters of Bilitis . Routsong died in Poughkeepsie on October 4, 1996.

Works

  • Alma Routsong: A Gradual Joy . Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1953.
  • Alma Routsong: Round Shape . Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1959.
  • Isabel Miller: A Place for Us . Bleeker Street Press, New York 1969. (Republished as: Isabel Miller: Patience and Sarah . McGraw-Hill, New York 1971. )
  • Isabel Miller: The Love of Good Women . Naiad Press, Tallahassee, FL 1986.
  • Isabel Miller: Side by Side . Naiad Press, Tallahassee, FL 1991.
  • Isabel Miller: A Dooryard Full of Flowers: and Other Short Pieces . Naiad Press, Tallahassee, FL 1993.
  • Isabel Miller: Laurel . Naiad Press, Tallahassee, FL 1996.

Awards and honors

Reviews

  • "After the GI Wedding," A Gradual Joy review , The New York Times , August 23, 1953
  • When Mother Moved In (review by Round Shape ), The New York Times , September 6, 1959
  • "Their love was a thing apart" (Review by Patience and Sarah ), The New York Times , April 23, 1972

literature

  • Contemporary Authors Online , Gale, 2002
  • Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson, Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998), pp. 481-482
  • Elizabeth M. Wavie, "Isabel Miller" in Sandra Pollack and Denise D. Knight Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993), pp. 354-360
  • Carol Hurd Green and Mary Grimley Mason (eds) "Alma Routsong," in American Women Writers, Issue 5 (Saint James Press, 1994), pages 394-396

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Traverse City Record-Eagle , August 17, 1945
  2. ↑ Wavie, "Isabel Miller"
  3. ↑ Hogan and Hudson, Completely Queer
  4. ^ Social Security Death Index . Retrieved November 8, 2010.
  5. ^ "Mrs. Bruce Brodie Wins Fellowship to Conference," Urbana, Illinois Courier , July 28, 1957
personal data
SURNAME Routsong, Alma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Isabel (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Traverse City, Michigan
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1996
Place of death Poughkeepsie