# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rita-mae-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:35:48.062Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/rita-mae-brown"
name: "Rita Mae Brown"
slug: "rita-mae-brown"
description: "Rita Mae Brown is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns and criticized the marginalization of lesbians within feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015. She is considered a significant Southern lesbian feminist poet and author and is associated with the women's liberation movement and women in print movement."
tagline: "Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist (born 1944)"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-11-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump