Laura moves into the apartment in Greenwich Village with a vague gnawing excitement in her. Marcie is young and very impulsive, but vivacious and puts Laura at ease. She gets a job as a secretary in a medical office and lands an apartment with a roommate - Marcie. Laura leaves home in the middle of the night and goes to New York City. One year after leaving college, Laura Landon is exhausted by living with her harsh, judgmental father, who perceives that she failed out of school. In an interview in 2003, she reluctantly admitted this was her favorite of the series. However, it was in this book that Bannon wrote one of the first endings in a work of lesbian fiction where none of the characters commit suicide, goes insane, is killed, or is left completely alone. It is followed in the series by Women In The Shadows, also published in 1959.īannon was inspired to write after reading The Well of Loneliness and Spring Fire.

For the 19 editions, the title was shorted to I Am A Woman. Lesbian pulp fiction books usually showed suggestive art with obscure titles that hinted at what the subject matter was inside.

Its original title with Gold Medal Books was I Am a Woman In Love With A Woman Must Society Reject Me? Bannon wanted the title to be Strangers in this World (from a conversation the main character has with a stranger who tells her that everyone is a stranger until she finds someone to love), but as Bannon explained in the 2001 edition forward of Odd Girl Out, Gold Medal publishers had control over the cover art and the title. It was originally published in 1959 by Gold Medal Books, again in 1983 by Naiad Press, and again in 2002 by Cleis Press. It is the second in a series of pulp fiction novels that eventually came to be known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. I Am a Woman is a lesbian pulp fiction novel written in 1959 by Ann Bannon (pseudonym of Ann Weldy).

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