I decided then and there I would never write an ordinary story again. — Marijane Meaker (image via Wikimedia Commons) She wrote under so many names: Ann Aldrich, Mary James, M.E. Kerr. As Vin Packer, she published one of the first-ever lesbian pulp novels, "Spring Fire," in 1952. The book sold 1.5 million copies in a single year, and Marijane's publishers clammered for more. Soon, she was writing a book a month under various pen names, all with wonderfully outrageous titles like "The Strange Path" and "The Evil Friendship" and "We Walk Alone Through Lesbos's Lonely Groves."
A Woman to Know: Marijane Meaker
A Woman to Know: Marijane Meaker
A Woman to Know: Marijane Meaker
I decided then and there I would never write an ordinary story again. — Marijane Meaker (image via Wikimedia Commons) She wrote under so many names: Ann Aldrich, Mary James, M.E. Kerr. As Vin Packer, she published one of the first-ever lesbian pulp novels, "Spring Fire," in 1952. The book sold 1.5 million copies in a single year, and Marijane's publishers clammered for more. Soon, she was writing a book a month under various pen names, all with wonderfully outrageous titles like "The Strange Path" and "The Evil Friendship" and "We Walk Alone Through Lesbos's Lonely Groves."