Jane Rule
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Jane Rule (born March 28, 1931 in Plainfield, New Jersey) is a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction.
Rule graduated from Mills College in California in 1952. She moved to Canada in 1956, where she taught at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1976, she moved to Galiano Island.
Rule served on the executive of the Writers' Union of Canada, and has been an outspoken advocate of both free speech and gay rights, including in the various controversies surrounding the gay magazine The Body Politic.
Desert of the Heart (1964) was successfully filmed by Donna Deitch and released as the cinema movie Desert Hearts (1985).
Rule was inducted into the Order of British Columbia in 1998.
Bibliography
- Desert of the Heart (1964)
- This Is Not For You (1970)
- Against the Season (1971)
- Lesbian Images (1975)
- Theme for Diverse Instruments (1975)
- The Young in One Another's Arms (1977)
- Contract With the World (1980)
- Outlander (1981)
- Inland Passage and Other Stories (1982)
- A Hot-Eyed Moderate (1985)
- Memory Board (1987)
- After the Fire (1989)
Categories: 1931 births | Canadian novelists | Lesbian writers | Canadian social justice activists | LGBT people from Canada
