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Alma Routsong was born in Traverse City, Michigan 26 November 1924 , the daughter of Carl and Esther Miller Routsong. During World War II she served in the WAVES , training at the Farragut, Idaho Naval Training Center Traverse City ''Record-Eagle'', August 17, 1945 and then working as a hospital apprentice. She graduated from Michigan State University in 1949 with a degree in art.

Routsong's first two novels were published under her own name, with the later works under the pen name, a combination of an anagram of "Lesbia" and her mother's maiden name. Between 1968 and 1971 she worked as an editor at Columbia University. From the mid-1970's until 1986 she was a proofreader for Time Magazine Wavie, "Isabel Miller".

Routsong was an officer in the New York chapter of Daughters Of Bilitis Hogan and Hudson, ''Completely Queer'' and was arrested during a DOB police raidWavie, "Isabel Miller".

Alma Routsong died in Poughkeepsie, New York on 4 October 1996 Social Security Death Index .


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AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Friends of American Writers award (1954, for ''A Gradual Joy'')

  • Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellow "Mrs. Bruce Brodie Wins Fellowship to Conference" Urbana, Illinois ''Courier'', 26 July 1957

  • American Library Association Gay Book Award (1971, for ''Patience and Sarah'')



REVIEWS

  • "After the G.I. Wedding," (review of ''A Gradual Joy''), ''The New York Times'' 23 August 1953

  • "When Mother Moved In," (review of ''Round Shape''), ''The New York Times'' 6 September 1959

  • "Their love was a thing apart" (review of ''Patience and Sarah''), ''The New York Times'' 23 April 1972



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BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2002

  • Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson, ''Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia'' (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998), pages 481-482.

  • Elizabeth M. Wavie, "Isabel Miller" in Sandra Pollack and Denise D. Knight (eds) ''Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States,'' (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993), pp 354-360

  • Carol Hurd Green and Mary Grimley Mason (eds) "Alma Routsong", in ''American Women Writers,'' volume 5 (St James Press, 1994), pp 394-396