![]() ![]() ![]() However, I wondered what made you pick up those lesbian pulps? What did they mean to you?Īnn Bannon: The lesbian pulps were just irresistible. GO Magazine: I have heard in interviews and read in forwards what inspired you to write your novels. In May 2018, I contacted Ann Bannon, hoping to interview this extraordinary woman. Much to Bannon’s surprise, her colleagues warmly accepted her. Her identity was to remain hidden until the ’80s when Naiad Press contacted her and received permission to reprint her material. Her later years would be spent working as an associate dean at California State University. ![]() ![]() All of Bannon’s novels were published between 1957-1962.Įventually, Bannon stopped writing lesbian fiction and returned to the university where she received her master’s degree and then a Ph.D. Throughout Odd Girl Out, I Am a Woman, Women in the Shadows, Journey to a Woman, and Beebo Brinker, the audience becomes enticed in an LGBTQ soap opera from the ’50s/’60s era. Her courageous novels tell the epic love stories of three coming of age lesbian women and one gay man. She would go on to write six lesbian pulp fiction novels known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, be dubbed the Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, and become the subject matter for LGBTQ college courses today. This college lesbian story was the spark that led Bannon to begin writing. A post shared by Housmans Bookshop on at 11:45am PDTĪt the age of 22, fresh out of college and newly married, Ann Bannon picked up Vin Packer’s Spring Fire. ![]()
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