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2004 June through December
At Oscar Wilde Books with Craig Dale, photographer for the 'Legends of the Village' calendar, who makes his beautiful photos on a magnificent old Lenhoff--the Stradivarius of cameras! We used Oscar Wilde as our backdrop, with special thanks to patient and hospitable manager Kim Brinster. With broadcaster, editor, and writer Andy Humm, who writes the essays for the beautiful photos in the 'Legends of the Village' calendar, a fund-raiser for Village Care of New York. At El Torino Restaurant, Greenwich Village, June 2004. With novelist, old friend and mentor Marijane Meaker (AKA Vin Packer, Ann Aldrich, and currently, M.E. Kerr, writer of fiction for young adults) at La Focaccia Restaurant in Greenwich Village, June 12, 2004. We had not seen one another in nearly 50 years! Without Marijane's encouragement and help, there would never have been an Ann Bannon. I owe her a universe of thanks. Author Marijane Meaker, editor and writer Don Weise, and Ann at dinner at La Focaccia in Greenwich Village; June 12, 2004.
Tour group enjoying the ambiance at the storied old lesbian bar, The Bagatelle, now transformed into a Mexican restaurant in Greenwich Village. 'Beebo Brinker's Greenwich Village' tour group, part of the 'Pink Ink' Literary Festival, sponsored by the Publishing Triangle; New York, June 2004. Leading the charge is Lisa E. Davis, novelist (Under the Mink) and long-time Village resident, in rainbow T-shirt. We are posed in front of La Sevilla Restaurant, favorite of novelist Patricia Highsmith in the 50s and 60s. Ann with historian Paul D. Cain at Paul's lecture inaugurating the Gail Lang Memorial Series; the Lavender Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange (LLACE), Sacramento, Sept. 20, 2004. Ann Bannon with historian Paul D. Cain (Leading the Parade) and his husband, Kurt Jacobovitz, at dinner in Sacramento; Sept. 20, 2004.
Talking to the SAGE audience, with a copy of the cover of Ann's book, The Marriage. Sept. 30, 2004. With the good women who arranged the SAGE lecture at the LGBT Community Center in Greenwich Village, Sept. 30, 2004: (L to R) Barbara Police and Pat Slone, Ann, and organizer-in-chief Rose Jordan, who did a lot of work to make the evening come true. Chatting with audience members at the LGBT Community Center, SAGE lecture, Sept. 30, 2004. With Anna Wilson, who will star as Beebo Brinker in the New York Theater Workshop version of Ann's books; attending Ann's lecture for SAGE at the LGBT Community Center, Greenwich Village, Sept. 30, 2004
With 'The Lisas'--seated at the trendy FoodBar Restaurant in New York, daughter Inga, Ann, special education teacher Lisa Tollner, and author (Under the Mink) and teacher Lisa E. Davis. In the sun-dappled courtyard of Le Jardin Bistro in New York's SoHo; L to R, daughter Inga and Ann with playwright Tom Blunt ('The Girls of Perry Street') and writing partner, singer-song writer Jill Sobule ('I Kissed a Girl' and many other songs); Oct. 1, 2004. Gorgeous Anna Wilson, who plays Beebo Brinker in the play, 'The Beebo Brinker Chronicles,' in her other life. Here, she's Tytania, Queen of the Fairies, and star of the fabulous 'Donkey Show,' a disco version of Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream.' With Ann at the Club El Flamingo, New York, Oct. 2, 2004.
At Le Sazerac in Greenwich Village: Daughter Inga, Ann, editor and writer Don Weise, and friend and writer Will. Oct. 2, 2004. At the 16th Annual Collectable Paperback and Pulp Fiction Expo, New York, Oct. 3, 2004: Los Angeles Paperback Impresario Tom Lesser, Ann, and Thriller Meister Jack Ketchum. At the New York Collectable Paperback Expo with pulp fiction legend, Julie Ellis, author of over 100 pulps from the 1960s; Oct. 3, 2004.
At the Expo with Mystery Superstar Julius Fast and Expo Maestro Gary Lovisi, who organizes the New York Expo; Oct. 3, 2004. Ann with granddaughter and webmistress Cheyenne at the Collectable Paperback Expo, New York, Oct. 3, 2004. With the authors of the play 'The Beebo Brinker Chronicles,' Linda Chapman and Kate Ryan (seated); in back, Ann's daughter, Inga, and Ann. At the New Venus cafe, Oct. 6, 2004. A poster promoting Ann's lecture and panel discussion at the University of Illinois, October 28 and 29, 2004.








University of Illinois: Panel discussion of 'The Future of Feminist Publishing and Feminist Bookstores.' Ann and Linda Bubon. October 29, 2004.		 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: At the Graduate School of Library and Information Science auditorium, Ann speaks to students and faculty on the topic, 'From 'Sleaze' to Classics: The Beebo Brinker Series.' October 28, 2004. At the University of Illinois, addressing the audience; October 28, 2004.
University of Illinois: Panel discussion with Stephanie Foote, Ann, Linda Bubon, and Ann Christopherson on the future of feminist publishing. October 29, 2004. The women of the University of Illinois who made Ann's visit possible. Back row, Prof. Jackie Kahn, Prof. Cris Mayo, Prof. Stephanie Foote, Ann, and Prof. Kal Alston. Front row, seated: the women of Women and Children First Bookstore of Chicago: Linda Bubon and Ann Christopherson. October 29, 2004.
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