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Alison Bechdel

Author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Includes the names: Alison Bechdel, Bechdel. Alison, By (author) Alison Bechdel, Alison (Author) on May-01-2012 Hardcover Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama ARE YOU MY MOTHER?: A COMIC DRAMA by Bechdel

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Originator of the Bechdel test, a measure of the representation of women in fiction. -Nevov

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 7,592 copies, 353 reviews
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama 1,819 copies, 95 reviews
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For 923 copies, 33 reviews
Dykes to Watch Out For 480 copies, 3 reviews
The Secret to Superhuman Strength 450 copies, 24 reviews
More Dykes to Watch Out For 366 copies
New Improved! Dykes to Watch Out For 342 copies, 1 review
Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For 318 copies
Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out for 317 copies
Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out for 316 copies
Dykes to Watch Out for: The Sequel 304 copies
Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out for 304 copies, 1 review
Post-Dykes to Watch Out For 286 copies, 1 review
Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out For 280 copies, 1 review
Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For 279 copies, 1 review
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (Contributor) 613 copies, 15 reviews
The Best American Comics 2006 (Contributor) 517 copies, 12 reviews
Stuck Rubber Baby (Introduction, some editions) 501 copies, 18 reviews
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (Contributor) 494 copies, 10 reviews
The Best American Comics 2007 (Contributor) 368 copies, 5 reviews
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (Contributor) 366 copies, 15 reviews
The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories (Contributor) 290 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Comics 2008 (Contributor) 283 copies, 14 reviews
The New American Splendor Anthology (Illustrator) 214 copies, 2 reviews
No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics (Contributor) 154 copies, 6 reviews
Dyke Strippers: Lesbian Cartoonists from A to Z (Contributor) 108 copies
The Art of Jaime Hernandez: The Secrets of Life and Death (Introduction) 97 copies, 1 review
The Best American Comics 2013 (Contributor) 94 copies, 2 reviews
Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre (Foreword) 72 copies, 2 reviews
Tomboys!: Tales of Dyke Derring-Do (Contributor) 64 copies, 1 review
Transposes (Foreword) 59 copies, 3 reviews
Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West (Introduction, some editions) 54 copies, 1 review
Juicy Mother: Celebration (Contributor) 44 copies
The Complete Wimmen's Comix (Contributor) 41 copies
Juicy Mother 2: How They Met (No. 2) (Contributor) 26 copies
The Best Contemporary Women's Humor (Contributor) 25 copies
Choices: A Pro-Choice Benefit Comic Anthology for the National… (Contributor) 19 copies
Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family (Contributor) 16 copies
Graphic Reproduction: A Comics Anthology (Graphic Medicine) (Contributor) 9 copies
Sinister Wisdom 31 (Contributor) 7 copies
The Comics Journal #237 (Interviewee) 5 copies
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Bechdel, Alison
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Date of birth
1960-09-10
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Gender
female
Nationality
USA
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Birthplace
Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of death
Cause of death
Places of residence
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, USA
Burlington, Vermont, USA
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
New York, New York, USA
Education
Oberlin College (1981)
Bard College
Simon's Rock College
Occupations
cartoonist
author
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Awards and honors
MacArthur Fellowship (2014)
Short biography
Bechdel began keeping a journal at age ten. She is married to Holly Rae Taylor.
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Originator of the Bechdel test, a measure of the representation of women in fiction. -Nevov

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