Lesbian author, Jean Hutchinson, died December 11, 2008, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, at the age of 68.  A resident of the St. Louis area at the time of her death, Hutchinson was a retired high school English teacher who only started writing at the end of her first career.  Hutchinson, along with her partner, Marcy Jacobs, wrote and published under the pseudonym of Jean Marcy.  From 1997 until 2003, the writing couple published four mysteries that featured the private detective Meg Darcy and her on again off again lover, police detective, Sarah Lindstrom.  In 2000, Jean Marcy’s book “Mommy Deadest” won a Lambda Literary Award for Best Mystery.  Hutchinson is survived by Marcy Jacobs her partner, in life and writing, of 23 years, and uncounted students, friends and readers whose lives she touched.