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"I started writing fiction principally to be free to say what I thought and felt." -- Jane Rule Born in the U.S., Rule moved to Canada in 1956. Her work centers around lesbian themes and she is best known for the novel, Desert of the Heart, which was made into the movie, Desert Hearts. Other works include After the Fire, The Young in One Another's Arms, and Lesbian Images.

Links:

Writers Union of Canada: Jane Rule Brief biography, awards, and selected publications. www.writersunion.ca/r/rule.htm

The Jane Rule Fonds List of published and unpublished works, by or about author Jane Rule, in the University of B.C. Special Collections Archives. www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll/ubc_arch/u_arch/janerule.html#scope

Jane Rule... Writing Abstract of a half-hour 1997 film on the process of writing fiction, with interviewer Marilyn Schuster. cmm.nfb.ca/../../index.epl?id=33318&recherche=simple&coll=onf

Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule Abstract of the 1995 film tracing Rule's social activism and writing. cmm.nfb.ca/../../index.epl?id=32856&recherche=simple&coll=onf