Ann Bannon

Ann Bannon (1983)

Ann Bannon (born September 15, 1932 in Joliet , Illinois as Ann Weldy ) is an American author and university professor.

Life

Bannon was born in Joliet, Illinois in 1932. She grew up in Hinsdale with her mother and stepfather. Bannon attended the University of Illinois , where she studied Romance languages . Bannon wrote six novels with lesbian characters from 1957 to 1962 , which became known as The Beebo Brinkler Chronicles . In 1962 she ended her writing. Bannon began studying again at Sacramento State University and received a PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University . She became a professor of English at Sacramento State University.

Bannon married in 1954. She was married for 27 years and divorced her husband in the 1980s.

The 1992 Canadian documentary Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives revisited the works of Bannon, which portrayed the lives of lesbian women in North America between 1940 and 1960. Her work was also mentioned in the 1984 documentary Before Stonewall .

Bannon's works were reissued in 2001. Bannon has received several awards for her pioneering work in LGBT literature.

Works by Bannon

Odd Girl Out , 1957
I Am a Woman , 1959
Women in the Shadows , 1959
Journey to a Woman , 1960
Beboo Brinker , 1962

literature

Christopher Nealon , 2001, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion Before Stonewall , Duke University Press , ISBN 0822380617
Susan Stryker , 2001, Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback , Chronicle Books, ISBN 0811830209

Individual evidence

↑ Before Stonewall , director John Scagliotti , 1984.

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personal data
SURNAME	Bannon, Ann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Weldy, Ann (maiden name); Thayer, Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American author
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Joliet , Illinois

[1] Before Stonewall , director John Scagliotti , 1984.