Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon
The first, Odd Girl Out, was published in 1957 with a cover illustration byīarye Phillips. We hold the first, second, and fourth books in the series, which form part of our lesbian fiction collectionin the UWM LGBT Collection. Who came to embody the archetype of the butch lesbian.
#Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon series#
While the main character through most of the series is Laura Landon (no, not the historical-romance writer!), the series is named after the recurring character of Beebo Brinker, “tall and handsome, vacillating between overconfidence and vulnerability after leaving her family’s farm in Wisconsin,”
1950-1970), the series’ frank and realistic depictions of homosexuality (for both women and men), gender identity, the gay bar scene, and self discovery is often credited with helping to articulate lesbian identity in the 1960s. Produced during the formative years of modern lesbian fiction (ca. The Beebo Brinker Chronicles are a series of five lesbian pulp romance novels (with a sixth, The Marriage, sometimes considered part of the series) written by celebrated lesbian pulp-fiction writer Ann Bannon (pseudonym for Ann Weldy) and published by Gold Medal Books, a division of Fawcett Publications, from 1957 to 1962.