Name Mary Wings Role Writer | Education Shimer College | |
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Awards Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery Books She came too late, She came in a flash, Divine Victim, She came by the book, She Came in Drag: An Emma Vi | ||
Trina Robbins and Mary Wings at the San Francisco Public Library
Mary Wings (born April 14, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois as Mary Geller) is an American writer, artist, and musician. In 1973, she made history by releasing Come Out Comix, the first lesbian underground comic book. She is 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.
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Wings, an open lesbian, resides in San Francisco.
Early life and education
Wings was raised in the Bahá'í Faith in Chicago. She attended Shimer College, a Great Books college then located in the town of Mount Carroll, Illinois. Later, she studied ceramics at Museum Art College in Portland, Oregon.
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