Sandra Scoppettone
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sandra Scoppettone (born June 1, 1936, Morristown, New Jersey)[1] is an American author whose career spans the 1960s through the 2000s. She is known for her mystery and young adult books.
She wrote Suzuki Beane (1961 with illustrator Louise Fitzhugh.)[2]
She came out as a lesbian in the 1970s.[3] Her play Home Again, Home Again, Jiggerty Jig was produced by TOSOS, a gay and lesbian theatre company, in 1975.[4] Her book Happy Endings Are All Alike (1978) was one of the earliest young-adult books to depict a lesbian relationship; it was chosen by the American Library Association for its "Best Books for Young Adults" list.[1] Three of her novels have been finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery.[5][6][7]
Publications
Mystery
- Some Unknown Person (1977)
- Such Nice People (1980)
- Innocent Bystanders (1983)
- Beautiful Rage (2004)
- This Dame for Hire (2005)
- Too Darn Hot (2006)
As Jack Early
- A Creative Kind of Killer (1984)
- Razzamatazz (1985)
- Donato & Daughter (1988)
Lauren Laurano series
- Everything You Have Is Mine (1991)
- I'll Be Leaving You Always (1993)
- My Sweet Untraceable You (1994)
- Let's Face The Music and Die (1996)
- Gonna Take a Homicidal Journey (1998)
Young adult literature
- Trying Hard to Hear You (1974)
- The Late Great Me (1976)
- Happy Endings Are All Alike (1978)
- Long Time Between Kisses (1982)
- Playing Murder (1985)
Children's books
- Bang, Bang, You're Dead (co-written with Louise Fitzhugh, illus. Fitzhugh) (Harper & Row, 1969)
References
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- ↑ a b Day, Frances Ann (2000). Lesbian and gay voices: An annotated bibliography and guide to literature for children and young adults. Greenwood Press.
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External links
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- Jack Early at LC Authorities, with 3 records
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- 1936 births
- Living people
- Writers from Morristown, New Jersey
- Novelists from New Jersey
- American women mystery writers
- American women novelists
- American writers of Italian descent
- American lesbian writers
- American LGBTQ novelists
- Lesbian novelists
- LGBTQ crime writers
- LGBTQ people from New Jersey
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- 20th-century American LGBTQ people
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people