Katherine V. Forrest - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	20-April-1939
Place of Birth	Windsor (Ontario, Essex County, Canada, Area codes 519 and 226)
Nationality	United States of America, Canada
Also know as	Katherine Forrest
Profession	Writer, Author
Katherine V. Forrest is an American writer. Forrest is best known for her nine novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield. The character was the very first lesbian police detective in the American lesbian mystery genre and is described as "Miss Marple with k.d. 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. 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. Her romance Curious Wine is considered a classic of American lesbian literature. In discussion of the "light" element of the lesbian romance Forrest said, "I think it's political as hell... Here were two women who had a lot of choices in life, a lot of options, and out of all of those options they chose the hardest one, which was to love each other." The novel is credited as one that "broke through many misconceptions about lesbians and lesbian relationships."

Awards by Katherine V. Forrest

Check all the awards nominated and won by Katherine V. Forrest.

2005

Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

Honored for : Daughters of an Emerald Dusk

Lambda Literary Award for LGBT SF/Fantasy/Horror

Honored for : Daughters of an Emerald Dusk

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies	Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery	Women of Mystery
Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror	Daughters of an Emerald Dusk

2004

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

Honored for : Hancock Park

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery	Hancock Park

2002

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror	Daughters of an Amber Noon

1999

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery	Sleeping Bones: A Kate Delafield Mystery

1998

Lambda Literary Award for Pioneer Award

1997

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery	Apparition Alley

1996

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery	Liberty Square

1992

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Anthology	The Erotic Naiad: Love Stories by Naiad Press Authors

1991

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

Honored for : Murder by Tradition

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery	Murder by Tradition

1989

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

Honored for : The Beverly Malibu

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery	The Beverly Malibu

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