Marijane Meaker
Marijane Meaker (born May 27, 1927 in Auburn , New York) is an American writer.
Life
Marijane Meaker grew up in Auburn as the daughter of a manufacturer. She attended the Stuart Hall School in Virginia , the College in Vermont and studied literature from 1946 to 1949 at the University of Missouri . She worked as a secretary for Fawcett Publishing in New York City in the early 1950s . Her friend Louise Fitzhugh encouraged her to write.
She has published under her name and under various pseudonyms, addressing different reader and age groups. As Vin Packer , she wrote twenty detective novels between 1952 and 1969 , including Spring Fire, one of the first lesbian trivial novels . Between 1955 and 1972 she wrote non-fiction books on topics of homosexuality under the pseudonym Ann Aldrich , these were very successful on the paperback market and some sold in print runs of 400,000 copies. In 1960, she took the title of the final passage from salt and his prize ("Carol") by Highsmith in the anthology Carol in a thousand cities .
Since 1972 she has been writing children's and youth books under the pseudonym ME Kerr and has received several awards for this. In 1974 Gene Reynolds turned If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever? (de: Save the tenderness ) a television production. For younger children she published books under the name Mary James . Her memories of the 1950s when she lived with Patricia Highsmith for two years came out in 2003.
After many years in New York, she moved to East Hampton .
Works (selection)
- ME Kerr: And who loves me (original title: Dinky stool Shoots Smack , translated by Irmela Brender ). Bertelsmann youth book publisher, Gütersloh 1974, ISBN 3-570-07638-5 .
- ME Kerr: Save the tenderness (Original title: If I Love You, am I Trapped Forever?, Translated by Irmela Brender). Signal, Baden-Baden 1975, ISBN 3-7971-0143-0 .
- ME Kerr: In the shadow of the father . Translation by Hans-Georg Noack. Baden-Baden: Signal-Verlag, 1975
- ME Kerr: The Maiden's Tower . Translation of Irmela Brender. Baden-Baden 1976
- ME Kerr: ME ME ME ME ME: Not a Novel . 1983
- ME Kerr: Gentle . Translation by Cornelia Krutz-Arnold. Maier, Ravensburg 1989
- ME Kerr: Dragons in the night . Translation by Cornelia Krutz-Arnold. Maier, Ravensburg 1990
- ME Kerr: Blood on the Forehead: What I Know About Writing . HarperCollins, New York, NY 1998
- ME Kerr: My smile in your eyes . Translation by Ulla Neckenauer (= Arena-Taschenbuch , volume 2575, Arena life ), Arena, Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-401-02575-9 .
- ME Kerr: Summer feelings (Original title: Hello, I lied ), translated by Uta Szyszkowitz , Ueberreuter, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-8000-2601-5 .
- Marijane Meaker: Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s . Cleis Press, 2003
- Marijane Meaker: My years with Pat. Memories of Patricia Highsmith. Translated by Manfred Allié. Diogenes, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-257-06498-5
literature
- AP Nilsen: Presenting ME Kerr . Boston: Twayne, 1997
Web links
- Literature by and about Marijane Meaker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Marijane Meaker in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Literature by and about Ann Aldrich in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature by and about Mary James in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature by and about ME Kerr in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature by and about Vin Packer in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- ME Kerr in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography & Awards , Official ME Kerr and Mary James Site
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrew Wilson : Beautiful Shadow. The life of Patricia Highsmith. Translation from English by Anette Grube, Susanne Röckel . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8270-0517-5 , p. 239
- ↑ Marijane Meaker: My Years with Pat , 2005, p. 73
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meaker, Marijane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auburn (New York) |