Mabel Maney is an artist

Artist

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 and author

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 from San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

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 known for her lesbian pulp fiction

Lesbian pulp fiction

Lesbian pulp fiction refers to any mid-20th century paperback novel with overtly lesbian themes and content. Lesbian pulp fiction was published in the 1950s and 60s by many of the same paperback publishing houses that other genres of fiction including Westerns, Romances, and Detective Fiction...

. She is the author of the Nancy Clue series, a lesbian

Lesbian

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 parody

Parody

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 of the Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew is a fictional young amateur detective in various mystery series for all ages. She was created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packaging firm. The character first appeared in 1930. The books have been ghostwritten by a number of authors and are published...

, Cherry Ames

Cherry Ames

Cherry Ames is the central character in a series of 27 mystery novels with hospital settings published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1943 and 1968. Helen Wells wrote volumes #1-7 and 17-27, and Julie Campbell Tatham , the creator of Trixie Belden, wrote volumes #8-16. Wells also created the Vicki...

, and Hardy Boys series. More recently, she is the author of the "Jane Bond" novels, a series of parodies of James Bond

James Bond

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

. Mabel's short fiction can also be found the humor anthology "May Contain Nuts".

Maney is famous for the quote

Quote

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"For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian."

Mabel was born in New Jersey. Her family moved to the midwest where was educated and permanently scarred by dour nuns. She was one of five children in an Irish Catholic family in Appleton, Wisconsin where she worked in her family's paper hat factory. She graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco State University. Her MFA thesis explored the subtext of novels featuring 1940s heroine Nurse Cherry Ames.

External links

• http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/17552/Mabel_Maney/index.aspx
• http://www.glbtq.com/sfeatures/interviewmmaney.html