Author: Nancy Garden
Profile: Nancy Garden was an American writer. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died I Carlisle, Massachusetts. Annie on My Mind, a lesbian novel is her most notable works. Sandy Scott has been her partner. Nancy Garden was an only child and told long stories to myself and many times acted out the stories. Nancy took refuge in wirting and in books. In 1961 she received the B.F.A. degree and in 1962 the M.A. degree from Colombia University School of Dramatic Arts. Nancy worked in theatre and amplified the work by doing odd office jobs while she was in school and even after college. She worked as a freelancer doing editorial work for different publishers. Her career in writing began, as an assistant editor in Scholastic Magazine in New York, NY and became an associate editor by 1970. Between the years 1971-1976, she became editor at Houghton Mifflin CO in Boston, MA. Nancy has written fantasy, mystery and non fiction for young adults and children and has also visited libraries and schools to give talks and teach children about writing.
Writing style: Nancy Garden’s genre is children’s and young-adults novels and supernatural fiction and has been part of the LGBT literature, literary movement.
Published Texts:
Nonfiction
1971 – Berlin: City Split in Two
1973 – Fun with Weather Forecasting
1988 – The Kids’ Code and Cipher Book
Weird and Horrible series
1973 – Vampires
1973 – Werewolves
1975 – Witches
1976 – Devils and Demons
Fiction
1971 – What Happened in Marston
1972 – The Loners
1975 – Mist Maiden
1982 – Annie on My Mind
1983 – Maria’s Mountain
1984 – Prisoner of Vampires
1986 – Peace, O River
1991 – Lark in the Morning
1992 – My Sister, the Vampire
1995 – Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan of Arc
1995 – My Brother, the Werewolf
1996 – Good Moon Rising
1999 – The Year They Burned the Books
2000 – Holly’s Secret
2001 – Prisoners of Vampires
2002 – Nora and Liz
2002 – Meeting Melanie
2004 – Molly’s Family
2006 – Endgame
2007 – Hear Us Out!
Fours Crossing series
· 1981 – Fours Crossing
· 1983 – Watersmeet
· 1987 – The Door Between
Monster Hunters
· 1987 – Mystery of the Night Raiders
· 1988 – Mystery of the Midnight Menace
· 1989 – Mystery of the Secret Marks
· 1994 – Mystery of the Kidnapped Kidnapper
· 1995 – Mystery of the Watchful Witches
Candlestone Inn
2004 – The Case of the Stolen Scarab
2010 – The Case of the Vanishing Valuables
Awards and Acknowledgements:
2003 – Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association (the award was in recognition for her lifetime contributing in writing for teens, citing Annie alone
2014 – Lee Lynch Classic Award by the Golden Crown Literary Society (citing her work as one of the most important classics in lesbian literature)
