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Sandra Scoppettone - Wikipedia

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Sandra Scoppettone
Born	(1936-06-01) June 1, 1936 (age 88) Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.
Pen name	Jack Early
Language	English
Nationality	American
Genre	Young Adult, Mystery
Notable works	Suzuki Bean, Happy Endings Are All Alike, Trying Hard to Hear You, Everything You Have Is Mine
Notable awards	Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Award (1972), Shamus Award of the Private Eye Writers of America.

Sandra Scoppettone (born June 1, 1936, Morristown, New Jersey)^[1] is an American author whose career spans the 1960s through the 2000s. She is known for her mystery and young adult books.

She wrote Suzuki Beane (1961 with illustrator Louise Fitzhugh.)^[2]

She came out as a lesbian in the 1970s.^[3] Her play Home Again, Home Again, Jiggerty Jig was produced by TOSOS, a gay and lesbian theatre company, in 1975.^[4] Her book Happy Endings Are All Alike (1978) was one of the earliest young-adult books to depict a lesbian relationship; it was chosen by the American Library Association for its "Best Books for Young Adults" list.^[1] Three of her novels have been finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Publications

Mystery

Some Unknown Person (1977)
Such Nice People (1980)
Innocent Bystanders (1983)
Beautiful Rage (2004)
This Dame for Hire (2005)
Too Darn Hot (2006)

As Jack Early

A Creative Kind of Killer (1984)
Razzamatazz (1985)
Donato & Daughter (1988)

Lauren Laurano series

Everything You Have Is Mine (1991)
I'll Be Leaving You Always (1993)
My Sweet Untraceable You (1994)
Let's Face The Music and Die (1996)
Gonna Take a Homicidal Journey (1998)

Young adult literature

Trying Hard to Hear You (1974)
The Late Great Me (1976)
Happy Endings Are All Alike (1978)
Long Time Between Kisses (1982)
Playing Murder (1985)

Children's books

Bang, Bang, You're Dead (co-written with Louise Fitzhugh, illus. Fitzhugh) (Harper & Row, 1969)

References

^ ^a ^b Day, Frances Ann (2000). Lesbian and gay voices: An annotated bibliography and guide to literature for children and young adults. Greenwood Press.
^ Bird, Betsy; Danielson, Julie; Sieruta, Peter (5 August 2014). Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children's Literature. Candlewick Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-7636-6771-9.
^ Hymowech, Gena (29 June 2006). "Sandra Scoppettone: From Trying Hard to Hear You to Too Darn Hot". AfterEllen.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ "New York Times: Arts and Leisure Guide". The New York Times. February 2, 1975. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
^ "4th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. 1992-07-14. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
^ "6th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. 1994-07-14. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
^ Gonzalez Cerna, Antonio (1995-07-15). "7th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2022-02-28.

External links

Official website ^{[dead link‍]}
Sandra Scoppettone at Library of Congress, with 22 library catalog records
Jack Early at LC Authorities, with 3 records

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