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Taking a pseudonym in the interest of privacy, Bannon wrote her first book, Odd Girl Out, as a coming of age novel that involved love between college sorority sisters. When an editor singled-out the school-girl romance as her story's most compelling feature, the book was re-written for a lesbian pulp fiction audience. Unlike most pulps, however, Bannon broke with tradition by avoiding sensationalistic plots in favor of emotionally engaged character development.
Despite her now legendary status among lesbian and gay readers, she surprisingly had no "emotional or intellectual connection" to lesbianism prior to the publication of her first book. "My story is a strange one, with all the apparent conventionality," Bannon recalls. "Everyone in my daily life thought I was just a very nice, young conventional wife and mother. They really didn't know what was going on in my head or my emotions and that was sort of how I got away with it."
Odd Girl Out enjoyed tremendous success, inspiring other ground-breaking works, most notably Beebo Brinker. Her sensitive renderings of sexuality also won Bannon a devoted following among isolated lesbians everywhere. "I got nice letters from a lot of really lovely women, and women who were hurting a lot, and women all over the country," Bannon remarks. "So many saying, 'Thank God I finally got connected with somebody who really knows what this is about.' "
The character of Beebo is among the most-loved lesbians ever to appear in gay and lesbian fiction. "I never met Beebo in the flesh, but she was part of my daydreams from a very early time," Bannon says of her ultra-butch protagonist. Although Beebo Brinker is Bannon's last published novel, the events in the story actually occur before those of Odd Girl Out. Thus the book is the first in the new Lesbian Pulp Fiction series, a line of lesbian pulps from Cleis Press that offer rare, first-hand looks into the pre-Stonewall era. As one reviewer observes, "Aside from being light, fun reading, the Beebo Brinker series gives us a glimpse of our past, along with a sense of where we came from and how far we've gotten."
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