Lucy Jane Bledsoe
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| Born | February 1, 1957 Portland, Oregon, United States |
| Occupation | novelist, science writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Fiction, nonfiction |
| Subject | LGBT literature, family relationship, adventure |
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Lucy Jane Bledsoe (born February 1, 1957 in Portland, Oregon, United States) is a novelist and science writer, who writes both fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults. She focuses on LGBT literature and has received several awards for her fictional and non-fictional writings, establishing herself as a Stonewall Book Award winner and four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist.
Bledsoe was born into a family of many members in Portland, Oregon, United States, where she grew up. Bledsoe stated in an interview that she started writing stories when she was young and had always wanted to become a writer. She was inspired to write by her high school teacher. From 1975 to 1977, Bledsoe attended Williams College. She earned a B.A. at University of California at Berkeley in 1979. Bledsoe is openly lesbian.
Bledsoe writes both fiction and non-fiction books, though to her contemporary fiction is most interesting to write, as she loves "exploring [her] imagination". Bledsoe has said that her works are influenced by many authors, among them are James Baldwin, Willa Cather, Adrienne Rich, Barbara Kingsolver. While her writings primarily focus LGBT literature, Bledsoe also writes about family relationships and adventures in the wild.
In 1985, she received the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. In 1995, Bledsoe published Sweat: Stories and a Novella, which helped her garner her first Lambda Literary Award finalist title for Lesbian Fiction. In 1997, she wrote her first adult novel Working Parts, for which she received the 1998 Stonewall Book Award - the American Library Association Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Award for Literature.
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