Ann Bannon
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Ann Bannon
- Born: 1932
Ann Bannon is the pseudonym for Ann Thayer, who wrote lesbian pulp novels in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Thayer, herself, lived a double life, existing between the heterosexual and homosexual communities, and she wrote about that world in her books. Though she was married, she would slip away on weekends to take part in Greenwich Village's gay night life. Her five books followed the life of Beebo Brinker as she tried to hide and then acknowledged her lesbianism. Thayer dropped out of sight after her books were published, and only acknowledged her authorship in 1980, when the books were republished.
In 2005, Thayer was honored with the Distinguished Service Award for Faculty Excellence by the Alumni Association of Sacramento State University.
Most Famous Works
- Odd Girl Out (1957)
- I Am a Woman (1959)
- Women in the Shadows (1959)
- Journey to a Woman (1960)
- Beebo Brinker (1962) The Marriage (1969)
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Works by Ann Bannon
(b. 1937)
| 1957 | Odd Girl Out. The first of a series of lesbian "pulps," paperback original novels featuring a rotating set of female characters and their romantic entanglements. "Ann Bannon" is the pseudonym of Ann Weldy, an author widely credited with creating a sense of community among lesbians in the 1950s and early 1960s, when lesbian life was covert and plagued by prejudice. Odd Girl Out proves enormously popular, as would its sequels, and the entire series would be reissued in the 1970s and again in the 1980s. |
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