![]() Bannon’s most famous character was Beebo Brinker, a butch teenager who abandons a repressive Midwest for the unrepressed Greenwich Village of beatniks and gay bars. In The Marriage, she described the dramatic upheavals in the life of a sometime lesbian who weds a man and tries to live as a heterosexual. In topics with titles like I Am a Woman (1959) and Women in the Shadows (1959), Bannon wrote of young lesbians coping with love, sex, and society’s disapproval and disgust. Fawcett published each of her subsequent five novels between 19. Bannon returned to an academic life and continued writing novels. Her husband refused to let her publish it under her own name, and the Ann Bannon nom de plume was assumed. The content of her first novel, Odd Girl Out (1957), she claimed, was based on other girls she had heard about at school. ![]() ![]() Born Ann Weldy in Joliet, Illinois, she went to college, then married and had two children while still in her early twenties. Known as the Queen of Lesbian Pulp, Ann Ban-non wrote paperbacks in the 1950s and 1960s about female homosexuals that were originally marketed as sensationalism and later reclaimed as an important literary record from a time when few other cultural manifestations of lesbianism were permitted in the American mainstream. ![]()
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