Nancy Garden

She currently divides her time between Massachusetts and Maine, with
partner Sandy Scott, their golden retriever, Loki, and their cats


This is the seventy-second 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.

Nancy Garden (born May 15, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author of children's and young adult literature.

Biography
She
is best known for her novel, Annie on My Mind (1982), which was
critically acclaimed but attracted controversy because of its lesbian
characters, Annie and Liza who fall in love. It was one of the first
teen novels to feature lesbian characters in a positive light.In 1993,
it was banned by the Kansas City school system and burnt in
demonstrations. It was returned to shelves only after a First Amendment
lawsuit by students in 1995. It is #48 on the American Library
Association's list of 100 Most Frequently Banned or Challenged Books,
1990-2000.

Garden earned a B.F.A. (1961) and an M.A. (1962) from
Columbia University School of Dramatic Arts. Through school and for
several years after college, Garden worked in theater, supplementing the
work with odd jobs in offices. She later taught school and worked as an
editor of children's literature. She has also written non-fiction,
mystery and fantasy for children and young adults. Other titles also
feature GLBT characters. In 2001, Garden received the Robert B. Downs
Award for Intellectual Freedom from the University of Illinois' Graduate
School of Library and Information Science. In 2003, the American
Library Association awarded her the Margaret A. Edwards Award for
lifetime achievement in writing books for teens.Garden's review of young
adult titles have appeared in the Lambda Literary Foundation's Lambda
Book Report.


List of published works
Works are listed by publication date.
Fiction
What Happened in Marston (1971)
The Loners (1972)
Mist Maiden (1975)
Annie on My Mind (1982)
Maria's Mountain (1983)
Prisoner of Vampires (1984)
Peace, O River (1986)
Lark in the Morning (1991)
My Sister, the Vampire (1992)
Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan of Arc (1995)
My Brother, the Werewolf (1995)
Good Moon Rising (1996)
The Year They Burned the Books (1999)
Holly's Secret (2000)
Prisoners of Vampires (2001)
The Case of the Stolen Scarab (2002)
Nora and Liz (2002)
Meeting Melanie (2002)
Molly's Family (2004)
Endgame (2006)
Hear Us Out! (2007)
Weird and Horrible
Vampires (1973)
Werewolves (1973
Witches (1975)
Devils and Demons
Fours Crossing
Fours Crossing (1981)
Watersmeet (1983)
The Door Between (1987)
Non-Fiction
The Kids' Code and Cipher Book (1988)