Jean M. Redmann

{{Infobox writer

| name = Jean M. Redmann

| pseudonym = J. M. Redmann

| occupation = Novelist, activist

| period = 20th century

| genre = Mystery

| subject = Lesbian fiction

| movement = LGBT literature

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|06|09}}

| birth_place = Mississippi, U.S.

}}

Jean M. Redmann (born June 9, 1955 in Mississippi), known professionally as J. M. Redmann and R. Jean Reid, is an American novelist best known for her Micky Knight mystery series, which has won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery three times and been a finalist four times.

Redmann's novels contain similar themes regarding "the protagonist's troubled childhood and how it affects her adult life, discrimination based on sexual orientation and alcoholism. Her novels follow the tradition of hardboiled fiction."{{Cite web|title=J.M. Redmann|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/96469.J_M_Redmann|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Goodreads|archive-date=February 13, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240213210933/https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/96469.J_M_Redmann|url-status=live}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS, WP:GOODREADS).|date=May 2024}}

She "is a gay rights activist and works as the director of prevention at NO/AIDS Task Force."{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS, WP:GOODREADS).|date=May 2024}}

Redmann's work has influenced several Spanish authors, who have also created detective characters and developed crime fiction stories based on lesbian female characters. These authors include Clara Asunción García, Isabel Franc, and Susana Hernández.{{cite book |last1=Pertusa |first1=Inmaculada |editor1-last=Fernández-Ulloa |editor1-first=Teresa |title=Otherness in Hispanic Culture |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |isbn=978-1-4438-5389-7 |pages=105–121 |language=Spanish |trans-chapter=New lesbian detectives for a new millennium |chapter=7. Nuevas detectives lesbianas para un nuevo milenio}}

Awards

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|+Awards for Redmann's writing

!Year

!Work

!Award

!Result

!Ref.

rowspan="1" |1993

|Deaths of Jocasta

|Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

| {{CFinalist}}

|{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=1993-07-14 |title=5th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/1993/07/lambda-literary-awards-1992/ |access-date=2023-01-26 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en |archive-date=January 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122021111/https://lambdaliterary.org/1993/07/lambda-literary-awards-1992/ |url-status=live }}

rowspan="1" |1996

|{{Sort|Intersection of Law and Desire|The Intersection of Law and Desire}}

|Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

|{{won}}

|{{Cite web |date=2012-03-04 |title=8th Annual Lambda Literary Awards {{!}} Lambda Literary |url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/07/14/lambda-literary-awards-1995/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304081005/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/07/14/lambda-literary-awards-1995/ |archive-date=2012-03-04 |access-date=2022-01-18}}

rowspan="1" |2000

|Lost Daughters

|Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

| {{CFinalist}}

|{{Cite web |last=Antonio |first=Gonzalez Cerna |date=2000-07-15 |title=12th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2000/07/lambda-literary-awards-1999/ |access-date=2022-01-18 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en |archive-date=February 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205005720/https://lambdaliterary.org/2000/07/lambda-literary-awards-1999/ |url-status=live }}

rowspan="1" |2010

|Death of a Dying Man

|Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

|{{won}}

| rowspan="1" |{{Cite web |last=Valenzuela |first=Tony |date=2010-05-10 |title=22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2010/05/2010-awards-finalists-winners/ |access-date=2022-01-17 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en |archive-date=August 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809233141/https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2010/05/2010-awards-finalists-winners/ |url-status=live }}

rowspan="3" |2011

| rowspan="3" |Water Mark

|Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Mystery/Thriller

|{{won}}

|{{Cite web |title=Award Winners of 2011 |url=https://www.goldencrown.org/page/2011Winners |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182435/https://www.goldencrown.org/page/2011Winners |archive-date=2022-01-18 |access-date=2022-01-17 |website=Golden Crown Literary Society}}

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

| {{CFinalist}}

Rainbow Award for LGBT Mystery

|{{won}}

rowspan="2" |2012

| rowspan="2" |Night Shadows: Queer Horror

|Shirley Jackson Award for Edited Anthology

|{{CFinalist}}

|{{Cite web |title=2012 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners |url=https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2012-shirley-jackson-awards-winners/ |access-date=2022-01-17 |website=The Shirley Jackson Awards |archive-date=September 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929124950/https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2012-shirley-jackson-awards-winners/ |url-status=live }}

Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

|{{CFinalist}}

|{{Cite web |date=2013-06-04 |title=25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced! |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2013/06/25th-annual-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced/ |access-date=2022-01-17 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en |archive-date=January 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108192318/https://lambdaliterary.org/2013/06/25th-annual-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced/ |url-status=live }}

rowspan="1" |2013

|Ill Will

|Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

|{{won}}

|{{Cite web |last=Yates |first=Ryan |date=2013-06-04 |title=2013 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced |url=https://www.autostraddle.com/2013-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced-179194/ |access-date=2022-01-17 |website=Autostraddle |language=en-US |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220112001728/https://www.autostraddle.com/2013-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced-179194/ |url-status=live }}

rowspan="1" |2018

|{{Sort|Girl on the Edge of Summer|The Girl on the Edge of Summer}}

|Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

| {{CFinalist}}

| rowspan="1" |{{Cite web |last=Boureau |first=Ella |date=2018-03-06 |title=30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2018/03/lambda-literary-award-finalists/ |access-date=2022-01-17 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en |archive-date=March 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319061534/https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2018/03/lambda-literary-award-finalists/ |url-status=live }}

2024

|Transitory

|Joseph Hansen Award

|{{won}}

|{{Cite web |last=Albanese |first=Andrew |date=2024-04-18 |title=Helen Elaine Lee, Joseph Plaster Among 2024 Publishing Triangle Award Winners |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/94849-helen-elaine-lee-joseph-plaster-among-2024-publishing-triangle-award-winners.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515222113/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/94849-helen-elaine-lee-joseph-plaster-among-2024-publishing-triangle-award-winners.html |archive-date=2024-05-15 |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=Publishers Weekly |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-04-18 |title=Awards: Publishing Triangle Winners; Donner Shortlist |url=https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4708#m63518 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508012448/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4708#m63518 |archive-date=2024-05-08 |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=Shelf Awareness}}

Publications

= Micky Knight series =

Death by the Riverside (1990)
Deaths of Jocasta (1992)
The Intersection of Law and Desire (1995)
Lost Daughters (1999)
Death of a Dying Man (2009)
Water Mark (2010)
Ill Will (2012)
The Shoal of Time (2013)
The Girl on the Edge of Summer (2017)
Not Dead Enough (2019)
Transitory (2023)

= Nell McGraw series (as R. Jean Reid) =

Roots of Murder (2016)
Perdition (2017)

= Anthology contributions =

The Milk of Human Kindness, edited by Lori L. Lake (2004)
Women of Mystery: An Anthology, edited by Katherine V. Forrest (2006)
Women in Uniform: Medics and Soldiers and Cops, Oh My!, edited by Pat Cronin (2010)
Lesbians on the Loose: Crime Writers on the Lam, edited by Narrelle M. Harris (2015)
The Only One in the World: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology, edited by Narrelle M. Harris (2021)