Sarah Dreher

Sarah Dreher
Occupation	Novelist, Playwright, Psychologist
Period	20th century
Genres	Mystery
Subjects	Lesbian fiction
Literary movement	LGBT Literature

Sarah Dreher is an American lesbian novelist and playwright, and best known for her award-winning lesbian mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Stoner McTavish. Dreher was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania in 1937,^[1] and resides in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Her themes include "the anguish of lesbian relationships beginning, ending or mending. Dreher's lesbian protagonists are modern heroes searching for integrity and identity..."^[2] In the resolution of her mysteries, solutions other than resorting to traditional justice system intervention are part of the exploration of society outside the existing social paradigm.

Dreher has contributed essays and writings to a number of projects, including Off the Rag: Lesbians Writing about Menopause by Lee Lynch and Akia Woods, "Waiting for Stonewall" in Sexual Practice/Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism,^[3] and a contributed chapter to They Wrote the Book: Thirteen Women Mystery Writers Tell All.^[4]

In addition to writing, Dreher is a clinical psychologist in private practice, graduating first from Wellesley College, then gaining a Ph.D. in psychology from Purdue University.^[5]

Work

• Solitaire and Brahms (1997) [novel]. New Victoria

• Stoner McTavish Series, New Victoria
  • Stoner McTavish (1985)
  • Something Shady (1986)
  • Gray Magic (1987)
  • Otherworld (1993)
  • Bad Company (1995)
  • Shaman's Moon (1998)
  • Love Murders (unpublished)

• Lesbian Stages: Plays by Sarah Dreher. New Victoria. (1988)

Plays: 8 x 10 Glossy, Alumnae News: The Doris Day Years, (list under development)

Awards

• Shaman's Moon, 1998 Lambda Literary Foundation winner, Mystery
• A Captive in Time, 1990 Lambda Literary Foundation finalist, Mystery
• Medalist, 2005 The Alice B Readers Award

See also

• Markowitz, Judith A, foreword by Katherine V. Forrest. The Gay Detective Novel (MacFarland)
• Munt, Sally. Murder by the Book?: Feminism and the Crime Novel, 1990, (Routledge)
• Zimmerman, Bonnie. Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Literature 1969-1989, 1992 (Beacon)

• Lambda Literary Foundation
• Lesbian literature
• Lesbian Fiction

References

1. ^ Griffin, Gabriele. Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing, Routledge (59).
2. ^ Zimmerman, Bonnie. Lesbian Histories and Cultures, Taylor and Francis (763).
3. ^ Wolfe, Susan J. and Penelope, Julia. Sexual Practice/Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1993
4. ^ Windrath, Helen (editor), They Wrote the Book: Thirteen Women Mystery Writers Tell All, 2000 Spinsters Ink
5. ^ Pollack, Sandra and Denise D. Knight (Editors). Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, 1993 (p. 186-191)

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