Ann Bannon

Ann Bannon (born 1932) is an American author best known for her Beebo Brinker series of lesbian pulp fiction novels published in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I Am a Woman (1959) is the second novel in the series and a landmark of LGBTQ+ literature, praised for its honest and compassionate portrayal of lesbian life in pre-Stonewall America.