author
Ann Bannon
b. 1932
Best known for the groundbreaking Beebo Brinker novels, this trailblazing writer helped give lesbian readers stories they could finally recognize as their own. Her books, first published in the 1950s and early 1960s, later found a new generation of readers and a lasting place in LGBTQ literary history.
4 Audiobooks
Journey to a woman
by Ann Bannon
Women in the shadows
by Ann Bannon
I am a woman
by Ann Bannon
The marriage
by Ann Bannon
About the author
Born Ann Weldy on September 15, 1932, in Joliet, Illinois, she became famous under the pen name Ann Bannon. She studied at the University of Illinois and went on to write a series of novels now known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles.
Published between 1957 and 1962, those books became landmarks of lesbian pulp fiction. They stood out for giving emotional depth and inner life to characters who were rarely treated with sympathy in popular fiction of the time, which is one reason Bannon later came to be called the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction."
Her work was rediscovered decades later and recognized as an important part of LGBTQ literary and cultural history. Alongside her writing career, she also worked in higher education, including at California State University, Sacramento.