Her romance Curious Wine is considered a classic of American lesbian literature. The screenplay had been written and roles cast with Mary-Louise Parker as Delafield and Tom Arnold as her police partner, but the project was ultimately shelved. lang, Sherlock Holmes with Candace Gingrich, and you've got Kate Delafield: ex-Marine, homicide detective for the LAPD, queer-as-the-day-is-long heroine." The second novel in the series, Murder at the Nightwood Bar, was optioned for film by director Tim Hunter. Career įorrest is best known for her nine novels about Kate Delafield, the first lesbian police detective in the American lesbian mystery genre and is described as " Miss Marple with k.d. She currently lives with her wife, Jo Hercus, in Palm Springs, California. She has been referred to by some "a founding mother of lesbian fiction writing." Personal life įorrest was born in 1939 in Windsor, Ontario. Her books have won and been finalists for Lambda Literary Award twelve times, as well as other awards. Forrest (born 1939) is a Canadian-born American writer, best known for her novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield.
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