Julie Anne Peters, a writer who pushed the boundaries of young-adult literature with novels that contained some of the genre’s first sensitive portrayals of gay love and transgender identity, died March 21 at her home in Wheat Ridge, Colo. She was 71.
Ms. Peters was already an established author more than two decades ago when her editor suggested that she write a lesbian love story for young adults.to the online magazine Write or Die. “Long, long pause while I hyperventilated.”
With that book, “I felt she had found her real voice in writing for this older age group,” her editor, Megan Tingley, now the president and publisher of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, wrote in an email.
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