Nancy Garden, a lesbian award-winning author of fiction for children and young adults, has died at age 76.
Her books included the lesbian teen novel Annie on My Mind. According to Amazon.com, the “book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings.”
According to her website, among her other works are Peace, O River (1986), My Sister the Vampire (1992), My Brother, the Werewolf (1995), Meeting Melanie (2002), and Hear Us Out: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope from 1950 to the Present (2007). She was also behind the Monster Hunters and Candlestone Inn series.
She is survived by longtime partner Sandy Scott.