Gay Courter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetGay Courter
American writer
Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1944
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Profession: novelist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Gay Courter
- Gay Courter (born October 1, 1944) is an American author, filmmaker, and children's rights activist.
- Her first novel, The Midwife (1981) was a New York Times bestseller, and was one of the best selling books of 1982.
- Five of her books have been on the New York Times Bestseller list.
- She is credited as one of the first authors—and the first woman—to write a published novel on a word processor.Her first non-fiction book The Beansprout Book (1973) introduced beansprouts to the supermarkets of America and became known as "the pied piper of sprouting." I Speak For This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate (1995), was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
- Her works have been translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, and Swedish.
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