Ann Bannon
(1932 - living) U.S.A.
Pioneering author of lesbian novels
Ann Bannon is the pseudonym of Ann Thayer who wrote series of lesbian pulp fictions in the 1950s and 1960s, only claiming her authorship in 1980 when the lesbian Naiad Press republished her novels. Bannn's depiction of lesbian life contains sustained representations of the difficulties women faced in making sexual choices in a sexually repressive era.
Bannon's novels contain butch women whose sexual identity is unwavering and femme lesbians who negotiate uneasily between their lesbian desires and the pressures a heterosexual world exerts on them.
Some of her Books:
- Beebo Brinker (1962)
- Odd Girl Out (1957)
- I Am a Woman (1959)
- Woman in the Shadow (1959)
- Journey to a Woman (1960)
Source: excerpts from: Gabriele Griffin, Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay and Writing, Routledge, London, 2002
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