Books by Jane Rule -- Garbo

Wednesdays have been a bit literary recently at the blog. This week we have covers for books by author Jane Rule (1931-2007). I am always happy to note that Jane and I shared a birthplace: Plainfield, New Jersey. In the late 1950s, Jane moved to an island off the coast of British Columbia to get away from the McCarthy persecutions in the U.S. Canada appreciated Jane, and she was awarded both the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada. 

She was prolific in terms of both fiction and non-fiction. Her first novel, written in 1964, had a romance with two women in it, and that became the film "Desert Hearts." Mostly, though, Jane wrote books and stories about ordinary life. She was one of the first authors to write about lesbians as part of the social whole, just another kind of person in the world. I loved all her books, but my favorite of her book titles might be the essay collection A Hot-Eyed Moderate.