![]() ![]() Beebo is clearly welling up with a terrible secret that forced her to move east, and guilt that comes with leaving her father alone. Beebo is 18 years old, tall and handsome, vacillating between overconfidence and vulnerability after leaving her family's farm in Wisconsin. Jack Mann finds Beebo Brinker (real name Betty Jean - she was unable to pronounce it as a child) wandering the streets of New York City's Greenwich Village. The painting on the first edition cover is by Robert McGinnis. Lesbian pulp fiction books usually showed suggestive art with obscure titles that hinted at what the subject matter was inside. However, in the order of the events and characters in the series, Beebo Brinker takes place several years before Odd Girl Out does.Īs Bannon explained in the 2001 edition foreword to Odd Girl Out, Gold Medal Press publishers had control over the cover art and the title. In the order of the series, it follows Journey to a Woman. Although this is the last in the series, it is set first - a prequel to the others. Each edition was adorned with a different cover. It was originally published in 1962 by Gold Medal Books, again in 1983 by Naiad Press, and again in 2001 by Cleis Press. ![]() ![]() It is the last in a series of pulp fiction novels that eventually came to be known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. ![]() Beebo Brinker is a lesbian pulp fiction novel written in 1962 by Ann Bannon (pseudonym of Ann Weldy). ![]()
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