Alma Routsong

Born: 11/26/1924   Traverse City , MI
Died: 10/04/1996
Parents: Carl John Routsong, Esther Routsong
Spouse: Bruce Brodie, divorced in 1962
Children: Natalie, Joyce, Charlotte, Louise
Address(es):
Last known address:
Poughkeepsie , NY

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Laurel
- As Isobel Miller
Fiction Adult Tallahassee, Fla. : Naiad Press 1996
A Dooryard Full of Flowers: And Other Short Pieces
- Under pseudonym Isabel Miller
Fiction Adult Tallahassee, FL : Naiad Press 1993
Side by Side
- Under pseudonym Isabel Miller
Fiction Adult Tallahassee, Fla. : Naiad Press 1990
The Love of Good Women
- Under pseudonym Isabel Miller
Fiction Adult Tallahassee, FL : Naiad Press 1986
Patience and Sarah
- Originally published as A Place for Us
Fiction Adult New York, McGraw-Hill 1969 -1972
A Place for Us
- Under pseudonym Isabel Miller. Republished, 2005.
Fiction Adult New York, Bleeker Street Press 1969
A Round Shape
- as Alma Routsong
Fiction Adult Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1959
A Gradual Joy
- as Alma Routsong A young couple after the war settled down in G. I. married-student housing at Michigan State University to finish their education. The veteran and former Wave nurse who fell in love in a Navy hospital joined the trailer colony in East Lansing.
Fiction , Michigan Adult Boston : Houghton Mifflin 1953
What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed. says, " Active in the gay liberation movement since 1970."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Awards:

Name Date
American Library Association Gay Book Award for Patience and Sarah 1971
Friends of American Writers Award for A Gradual Joy 1954

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
American Women Writers, volume 5 1994
Michigan Authors, 3rd edition 1993
Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States 1993
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Michigan in Fiction
- Michigan Department of Education
1976
Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 49-52 1975
Michigan Authors, 1st ed., 2nd ed.
- Listed: 1960, 1980
1960 -1980

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Michigan State University East Lansing , MI 1949
Attended Western Michigan University Kalamazoo , MI 1942 -1944

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Editor Columbia University New York 1968 -1971
Hospital Apprentice U.S. Navy Waves 1945 -1946
Writer

Other Resources:

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