Published in 1959 as part of Ann Bannon’s Beebo Brinker Chronicles, I Am a Woman follows protagonist Laura Landon as she navigates her identity and finds community in Greenwich Village’s underground lesbian culture. Bannon wrote in the pulp paperback tradition of the era while bringing an unusual degree of sympathy and authenticity to her characters.
Rediscovered and celebrated in later decades as a pioneering work of LGBTQ literature, the novel is a significant artifact of mid-twentieth-century American social history. Download this free EPUB at Better Gutenberg for your e-reader.