Mary Wings

Colors of Mexico (Mary Wings, 2007)

Mary Wings (born April 14, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer, artist, and musician.

In 1973 Mary Wings made history by releasing Come Out Comix, the first lesbian underground comic book. She may be best known for her series of detective novels featuring lesbian heroine Emma Victor. Divine Victim, Wings' only Gothic novel, won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery in 1993.

Wings, an open lesbian,^[1] resides in San Francisco.

Bibliography

Comix

• Come Out Comix (1974)
• Dyke Shorts (1978)
• Are Your Highs Getting You Down? (1980)

Novels

Divine Victim (1993) - Lambda Literary Awards 1993 — Lesbian Mystery Winner

Emma Victor Series

• She Came Too Late (1986)
• She Came in a Flash (1988)
• She Came by the Book (1995)
• She Came to the Castro (1997)
• She Came in Drag (1999)

Lectures

• A Woman of Affairs with historian Eric Garber (1993) — The Life of Greta Garbo

References

1. ^ Hall, Lynda (2000), Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience, Haworth Press, p. 159, ISBN 1560231432 

External links

• Mary Wings Gallery Website
• Lambiek biography
• Comic Art Collection, Michigan State University

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