Efforts to bring the play to TV as a possible miniseries are in the works. Chapman-converted the novels into “The Beebo Brinker Chronicles,” a critical off-Broadway hit, which got a rave review in the New York Times.
In 2007, two women playwrights-Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. In 2002, the Cleis Press republished five of the novels in 2002, with new introductions by Bannon. Bannon made appearances at packed bookstore readings. The Arno Press republished four of her novels in 1975, then in 1983, the lesbian-owned Naiad Press republished the novels. Though Bannon had stopped writing novels, the publishers did not forget Beebo Brinker. She was a professor and a dean at Cal State Sacramento from 1973 to 1997. Bannon wound up getting a masters, then a PhD in linguistics from Stanford. At that point, Bannon returned to school, to get a teaching credential that would lead to self-sufficiency and the ability to end her unhappy marriage. Though no romance occurred on this trip, it allowed Bannon to explore her own sexuality.Īt the end of her visit, Dick Carroll gave Bannon her manuscript, told her to cut it down and to put the erotic and romantic relationship between the college girls front and center.īannon’s resulting 1957 pulp novel Odd Girl Out was a bestseller, giving Bannon $30,000 in royalties, which would be worth $279,000 in 2020 dollars.īannon published her last book Beebo Brinker in 1962. Meaker initiated Bannon into the Village gay culture, guiding her through the butch/femme dynamic, and the language and dress used by gay women in the 1950’s. Meaker took Bannon on a tour of Greenwich Village, showing her the lesbian bars and taking her to the Bagatelle, the most popular lesbian bar in the Village. Intrigued by Bannon’s letter and her manuscript, Meaker invited her to Greenwich Village.Īfter Bannon finally convinced her reluctant husband to let her go to New York, Bannon gave her manuscript to Dick Carroll, the editor of Gold Medal Books, which was hungry to publish more lesbian pulp novels.
After she finished writing her novel, she wrote Vin Packer, whose real name is Marijane Meaker, asking her for advice. She went to the rack of pulp novels and pulled out a stack of books, some detective novels, and the forbidden fruit, a novel called Spring Fire by Vin Packer, which was a college romance between two women.īannon devoured Spring Fire and realized she might be able to write an erotic pulp novel of her own. In the mid-1950’s, a Philadelphia housewife named Ann Bannon walked nervously into a local pharmacy.
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