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. 2Biography Courter was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Leonard M. Weisman, an international businessman, and Elsie Spector Weisman, a social worker who studied at Carnegie Tech. She is the elder of two daughters. Her sister, Robin Madden, M.D., is a pediatrician. Her foster sister, Jennifer Chang Su, began living with the family while they were in Taiwan in 1952, and she has remained a close family member. Courter attended schools in Taiwan and Japan, and was homeschooled by her mother during their travel