Marijane Meaker

Marijane Meaker Marijane Meaker in 2007 Born (1927-05-27)May 27, 1927 Auburn, New York, USA Pen name Ann Aldrich M. E. Kerr Mary James Vin Packer Laura Winston Occupation Writer Nationality American Genres Mystery fiction, lesbian pulp fiction, young adult fiction Subjects Resources for lesbians Notable award(s) Margaret Edwards Award 1993 Influences Carson McCullers Nancy Drew books Charles Dickens Erskine Caldwell Sherwood Anderson Paul Zindel www.mekerr.com Marijane Meaker (born May 27, 1927) is an American novelist and short story writer in several genres using different pen names. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote twenty mystery and crime novels as Vin Packer, including Spring Fire which is credited with launching the genre of lesbian pulp fiction (although few of Packer's books address homosexuality or feature gay characters). Using her own observations of lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote a series of nonfiction books as Ann Aldrich f... (see more)