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Ann Bannon

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    (September 15, 1932- )
    Born in Joliet, Illinois
    Birth name was Ann Weldy
    Wrote the Beebo Brinker Chronicles: 'Odd Girl Out' (1957), 'I Am A Woman' (1959), 'Women in the Shadows' (1959), 'Journey to a Woman' (1960), 'The Marriage' (1960) and 'Beebo Brinker' (1962)
    Became an English professor and associate dean at Sacramento State University
    Called 'the Queen of lesbian pulp fiction'

Why she might be annoying:

    While raising two young children, she took trips to New York's Greenwich Village for 'field experience.'
    She described her character Beebo Brinker as 'quite literally, the butch of my dreams.'
    She wrote using a pseudonym at her husband's insistence.
    She turned down an invitation to address the pro-gay rights Mattachine Society because of her husband's disapproval.
    She developed chronic fatigue syndrome, which she blames on repressing her sexuality for so long.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She said she began writing because 'I was kind of desperate to get some of the things that had been consuming me for a long time down on paper.'
    Unlike most pulp fiction of the day, she depicted same-sex relationships in a mostly positive light.
    She noted about the letters she received from readers, 'The most important things they learned were that 1) they weren't unique and doomed to lifelong isolation, 2) they weren't 'abnormal,' and 3) there was hope for a happy life.'
    She was rediscovered and her books republished in the 1980s.
    An award-winning off-Broadway play based on the Beebo Brinker Chronicles was produced by Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner (2007).

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 27 Votes: 62.96% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 20 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 28 Votes: 57.14% Annoying