Ellen Hart

Hart is openly lesbian. Her Jane Lawless series features a lesbian restaurateur and her smart mouth best friend, Cordelia Thorn.

Our local book critic AJ has reviewed a few of her books--favorably!

This
is the seventieth post in a series highlighting the best gay and
lesbian authors from the 20th century (with a few before and after that
period) who have recorded in fiction, and nonfiction, the history of gay
people telling what life is, and was, during an important time of
history.

Ellen
Hart is the award-winning mystery author of the Jane Lawless and Sophie
Greenaway series. She was born in Minneapolis, MN in August 1949. A
professional chef for 14 years, Hart's mysteries include culinary
elements similar to those of Diane Mott Davidson.

The
author says of her work, "I don't write about the Mean Streets. I don't
live there .... I don't do lots of blood and gore. I don't do sex
scenes in any great detail. I'd never kill a dog or a cat. I guess you
could call my style, maximal suspense and minimal gore."  The Jane
Lawless series began in 1989 and is an early Post-Stonewall example of
the mystery genre in Lesbian literature. Hart's novels deal with GLBT
issues and five of the Lawless series have won Lambda Literary Awards

Dubbed
the "lesbian answer to Agatha Christie for her Jane Lawless series,
Hart also pens the culinary Sophie Greenway mystery series. She
frequently toursand lectures on the craft of mystery writing. She has
contributed to numerous crime writer anthologies including Resort to
Murder: Thirteen More Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Writers.
In
2007 Hart was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Golden
Crown Literary Society. Hart and her partner of many years, Kathy, live
in Minneapolis.Hart has taught an annual master class for mystery
writers at The Loft in Saint Paul for the past thirteen years
FOR A LIST OF HART’S BOOKS GO TO:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Hart