{"death_date": "21 Nov 2022", "remote_ids": {"viaf": "29512131", "wikidata": "Q3122920"}, "name": "M. E. Kerr", "personal_name": "M. E. Kerr", "bio": "American writer who, along with Tereska Torres, was credited with launching the lesbian pulp fiction genre, the only accessible novels on that theme in the 1950s.\r\n\r\nPen names and subjects:\r\n\r\n- M.E. Kerr - young-adult fiction\r\n- Vin Packer - mystery and crime novels, including Spring Fire.\r\n- Ann Aldrich - nonfiction books about lesbians\r\n- Mary James - books for younger children.", "key": "/authors/OL32510A", "source_records": ["bwb:9781558619333", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-04-22", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_016.bib.mrc:62646996:2061"], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "alternate_names": ["Marijane Agnes Meaker", "M. J. Meaker", "Vin Packer", "Ann Aldrich", "Mary James"], "photos": [15117511], "birth_date": "27 May 1927", "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-04T00:38:31.890885"}}