Ann Bannon

Ann Bannon is the pen name of Ann Weldy, an American author best known for The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, a series of lesbian pulp fiction novels published from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. Her work is widely regarded as influential in lesbian literature and has earned her the title "Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction."

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