![]() My family, my life, my culture, my society all said, be a good wife and mother. It was easier to live in my head then to go out and live a real life. In an interview in the NFB documentary Forbidden Love, she recounted that she stopped writing fiction in the late 1960s when her children got older and began to be curious about what she was doing and writing. ![]() Since her retirement she has continued to tour the United States, speaking at many LGBT+ events. ![]() After writing five books in the Beebo Brinker series she went on to a life in academia, earning her PhD in linguistics and ultimately working as an associate dean at California State University, Sacramento.īannon believed her pulp fiction books to have been forgotten until they were reissued by Naiad Press in the 1980s. After reading Spring Fire, she began a correspondence with Marijane Meeker which eventually led to publishing Odd Girl Out with Fawcet Publications. Bannon lists Radcliffe Hall’s Well of Loneliness and Spring Fire by Vin Packer (Marijane Meeker) as the two books that influenced her to write lesbian pulp fiction. She uses the name Ann Bannon exclusively in relation to her work as a writer.Īnn Bannon is widely hailed as the ‘Queen of the Lesbian Pulps’, and her Beebo Brinker series has been reissued by five different publishers, and made into a play. She also appears in some sources under her mother's maiden name of Thayer or her married name of Ann Holmquist. ![]() Ann Bannon is the pseudonym of Ann Weldy. ![]()
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