Sue A. Hardesty, best known by the dual name Sue Hardesty, an American author from Buckeye, Arizona has died. Hardesty was born on July 11, 1933 and died on December 16, 2022. She was 89 years.
Hardesty died after a battle with cancer.
Hardesty’s writing focused on plots and characters from the Southwestern United States, and social themes of lesbianism and feminism, as well as complex female characters and family relationships.
She was a long-time supporter of the NOW (the Central Oregon Coast Chapter), the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association, PFLAG, the Golden Crown Literary Society, and the Lambda Literary Foundation.
Hardesty published her first full-length novel, The Truck Comes on Thursday: Book 1 in the Loni Wagner Series, in 2010 through Teal Ribbon Publications and a second edition through L-Books in 2011.
In its review of the book, The American Library Association’s Rainbow Table Reviews wrote:
Hardesty also taught English and media in high school for twenty-seven years.
She was married to Dr. Nel Ward.