Alma Routsong

Alma Routsong (* November 26, 1924; † 4 October 1996) was an American author. Routsong wrote under the name Isabel Miller.

Alma Routsong was born in Traverse City, Michigan on November 26, 1924. She was the daughter of Carl and Esther Miller Routsong. During the Second World War she served in the WAVES organization of the U.S. Navy and was trained at Farragut in Idaho Naval Training Center, then to work as a nurse. 1949 graduated Routsong year students in Arts at Michigan State University.

Routsong published her first two novels under her own name, then voted for their further work the pen name Isabel Miller. This name is an anagram of the word Lesbia and her mother's birth name. Between 1968 and 1971 Routsong worked as an editor at Columbia University. She was employed as an editor for Time Magazine .. Routsong From mid-1970 to 1986 was an officer of the New York local chapter of Daughters of Bilitis. Routsong died in Poughkeepsie on October 4, 1996.

Works

  • Alma Routsong: A Gradual Joy. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1953.
  • Alma Routsong: Round shape. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1959.
  • Isabel Miller: The Love of Good Women. Naiad Press, Tallahassee, FL 1986.
  • Isabel Miller: Side by Side. Naiad Press, Tallahassee, FL 1991.
  • Isabel Miller: A Dooryard Full of Flowers: and Other Short Pieces. Naiad Press, Tallahassee, FL 1993.
  • Isabel Miller: Laurel. Naiad Press, Tallahassee, FL 1996.

Awards and Honors

  • Friends of American Writers Award (1954 for A Gradual Joy)
  • Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellow (1957 for Round Shape)
  • American Library Association Gay Book Award (1971, for Patience and Sarah )

Reviews

  • "After the G.I. Wedding " ( review of A Gradual Joy), The New York Times, August 23, 1953
  • "When Mother Moved In" ( review of Round Shape), The New York Times, September 6, 1959
  • "Their love was a thing apart" ( review of Patience and Sarah ), The New York Times, April 23, 1972
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