page_title: Gay Courter
section_title: Critical comments
hierarchical_section_title: Gay Courter / Critical comments
caption_attribution_description: English: [Placing file in Wikimedia Commons in order to have proper URL citation in email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org] Photo is of NYTimes Bestselling author Gay Courter while working on her book, The Midwife, in 1977 - to include on Wikipedia Page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Courter)
context_page_description: Gay Courter is an American author, filmmaker, and children's rights activist. Her first novel, The Midwife 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 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, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her works have been translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, and Swedish.
context_section_description: Carol Eisen Rinzler, reviewing The Midwife in The Washington Post wrote: “It kept me up until four in the morning… the author, to use a timeless phrase, knows how to tell a story.”
  “Why is Midwife such an important book?” commented Carroll Stoner in the Chicago Sun-Times. "Chances are slim that you have ever read a novel by a woman that also provides an impressive body of knowledge about a subject of special interest to us.”
  Reviewing Flowers in the Blood in the New York Times, Janet Kaye wrote, “Compelling scenes of India and China… combine to make Gay Courter’s fourth novel both absorbing and informative.”
  “Gay Courter’s sensitive way with her material, combined with her good writing and vivid details of life in Brazil, where she has traveled, make River of Dreams a pleasant surprise for readers expecting just another historical novel," commented Jane Stewart Spitzer in The Christian Science Monitor.
  Of Courter's child advocacy, Publisher's Weekly's reviewer wrote, “Inexperienced in the ways of the courts but fired with idealism and courage, Courter embarked on a mission to right wrongs for victimized children.”
  In the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Misti Snow's review said, “I Speak for this Child will inspire indignation, not only for the children Courter has championed but for all the children in need of safe passage.”
caption: Gay Courter works on her IBM System 6 while writing her book, The Midwife.
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