Josephine TeyElizabeth MacKintosh (1896-1952), better known by her pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author who is celebrated for opening the doors of detective fiction to more contemporary and unconventional ideas like homosexual desire and gender-noconformity. Though a critical success as an author of detective fiction, her lifelong dream was to write a play that would run on London's West End. She would accomplish this goal with her three plays Richard of Bordeaux, The Laughing Woman, and Queen of Scots, all of which were written and produced under her other pseudonym, Gordon Daviot. While always remaining a great patron of the arts, MacKintosh was an intensely private person who evading publicity at every turn, even going so far as to hide her terminal cancer from her closest friends until after her passing. Read More Read Less