Jane Rule

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Jane Rule (born March 28, 1931) is a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction.

Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Rule studied at Mills College in California. She graduated in 1952, and moved to Canada four years later. There she taught at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1976, she moved to Galiano Island.

Rule served on the executive of the Writers' Union of Canada, and has been an outspoken advocate of both free speech and gay rights, including in the various controversies surrounding the gay magazine The Body Politic.

Her first book, Desert of the Heart (1964), was filmed by Donna Deitch and released as Desert Hearts in 1985.

Rule was inducted into the Order of British Columbia in 1998, and into the Order of Canada in 2007. Memory Board (1987) and After the Fire (1989) were both nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Desert of the Heart (1964)
  • This Is Not For You (1970)
  • Against the Season (1971)
  • Lesbian Images (1975)
  • Theme for Diverse Instruments (1975)
  • The Young in One Another's Arms (1977)
  • Contract With the World (1980)
  • Outlander (1981)
  • Inland Passage and Other Stories (1982)
  • A Hot-Eyed Moderate (1985)
  • Memory Board (1987)
  • After the Fire (1989)
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