Jean M. Redmann | |
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Pen name | J. M. Redmann |
Occupation | Novelist, activist |
Period | 20th century |
Genre | Mystery |
Subject | Lesbian fiction |
Literary movement | LGBT literature |
Jean M. Redmann (born June 9, 1955 in Mississippi, US), known professionally as J. M. Redmann and R. Jean Reid, is an American novelist best known for her Micky Knight mystery series, which has won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery three times and been a finalist four times.
Redmann's novels contain similar themes regarding "the protagonist's troubled childhood and how it affects her adult life, discrimination based on sexual orientation and alcoholism. Her novels follow the tradition of hardboiled fiction."[1]
She "is a gay rights activist and works as the director of prevention at NO/AIDS Task Force."[1]
Year | Work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2018 | The Girl on the Edge of Summer | Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery | Finalist | [2] |
2013 | Ill Will | Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery | Winner | [3][4] |
2012 | Night Shadows: Queer Horror | Shirley Jackson Award for Edited Anthology | Finalist | [5] |
Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror | Finalist | [3] | ||
2011 | Water Mark | Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Mystery/Thriller | Winner | [6] |
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery | Finalist | |||
Rainbow Award for LGBT Mystery | Winner | |||
2010 | Death of a Dying Man | Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery | Winner | [7] |
2000 | Lost Daughters | Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery | Finalist | |
1996 | The Intersection of Law and Desire | Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery | Winner | |
1993 | Deaths of Jocasta | Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery | Finalist |