In the spring of 1964, the administrators of the racially segregated university expelled her for participating in the civil rights movement. Starting in late 1962, Brown attended the University of Florida on a scholarship. Julia and Ralph Brown were active Republicans in their local party. Her mother's cousin, Julia Brown, and her husband, Ralph, retrieved the newborn Brown from the orphanage, and raised her as their own in York, Pennsylvania, and later in Ft. Brown's birth mother left her at an orphanage. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015.īrown was born in 1944 in Hanover, Pennsylvania to an unmarried teenage mother and her mother's married boyfriend. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns and criticized the marginalization of lesbians within feminist groups.
Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Union Institute and University ( MA, PhD)
