Nisa Donnelly (November 11, 1950 – January 30, 2021) was an American writer.[1] She was most noted for her 1989 novel The Bar Stories: A Novel After All, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction at the 2nd Lambda Literary Awards in 1990.[2]
Her second novel, The Love Songs of Phoenix Bay, was published in 1994.[3] She won a second Lambda at the 11th Lambda Literary Awards in the Non-Fiction Anthologies category, as editor of the anthology Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life.
She died on January 30, 2021, in Portland, Oregon.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Insightful panorama of lesbian lives". Los Angeles Times, June 8, 1989.
- ^ "Lambda Literary Awards". American Bookseller, Vol, 15 (1991).
- ^ "Hetero-friendship". Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Fall94, Vol. 1 Issue 4, p40-40. 3/4p.
- ^ Macey, Lee. "Speak your piece: Remembering Record Searchlight columnist Nisa Donnelly". Redding Record Searchlight. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  | This article about a novelist of the United States born in the 1950s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |