Works by Marijane (Agnes) Meaker
(aka Ann Aldrich, M. E. Kerr, M. J. Meaker, Mary James, Vin Packer)
(Writer)

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AIDS/HIV -- Biography & Memoirs -- Children’s Books -- Coming Out -- Gay -- Lesbian -- Literature & Fiction -- Nonfiction

Writing As:

Ann Aldrich M. E. Kerr M. J. Meaker Marijane Meaker Mary James Vin Packer

Books Written as Ann Aldrich (Mostly out of print)

• We Walk Alone (1958)

• Carol in a Thousand Cities (1960)

• We, Too, Must Love (1963)

• We Two Won't Last (1963)

• Take A Lesbian To Lunch (1972)

Books Written as M. E. Kerr

• Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! (1972)

• If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever? (1973)

• The Son of Someone Famous (1974 )

• Is that you, Miss Blue? (1975 )

• Love Is a Missing Person (1975 )

• I'll Love You When You're More Like Me (1977)

• Gentlehands (1978)

• Little Little (1981)

• What I Really Think of You (1982)

• Me Me Me Me Me: Not a Novel (1983)
  M. E. Kerr tells her readers a little something about her childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, not necessarily in that order, and traces her development as a writer. She shows how events and people in her life inspired themes and characters in her writing. M. E. Kerr explains in the introduction that she wrote this book in response to readers questions about whether things that happen in her books happened to her.

• Him She Loves? (1984)

• I Stay Near You: One Story in Three (1985)

• Night Kites (1986)
  The first young adult novel about AIDS -- before there was very much information available about the disease. 17-year-old Erick Rudd tells the story of how his family reacts when they find out about his older brother Pete’s homosexuality and debilitating illness at the same time.

• Linger (1993)

• Deliver Us from Evie (1994)
  16-year-old Parr Burrman and his family face some difficult times when word spreads through their rural Missouri town that his older sister is a lesbian, and she leaves the family farm to live with the daughter of the town’s banker. 18-year-old Evie Burrman is one of the most inspiring lesbian characters in young adult fiction.

• Hello, I Lied (1997)
  Summering in the Hamptons on the estate of a famous rock star, 17-year-old Lang tries to decide how to tell his longtime friends that he is gay, while struggling with an unexpected infatuation with a girl from France.

• Blood on the Forehead : What I Know About Writing (1998)

• What Became of Her (2000)

• Slap Your Sides (2001)

• Snakes Don't Miss Their Mothers (2003)

The Fell Series

• Fell 1987

• Fell Back (1989)

• Fell Down (1991)

• The Books of Fell (2001)

See Also:

• Presenting M. E. Kerr (Twayne's United States Authors Series, No 678) (1986) by Alleen P. Nilsen with M. E. Kerr as photographer.

Books Written as M. J. Meaker (Mostly out of print)

• Sudden Endings (1964)

• Hometown (1967)

Books Written as Marijane Meaker

• Game of Survival (1968)

• Shockproof Sydney Skate (1972)

• Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950's (2003) -- Finalist, 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Autobiography/Memoir)

Books Written as Mary James

• Shoebag (1990)

• The Shuteyes (1993)

• Frankenlouse (1994)

• Shoebag Returns (1996)

Books Written as Vin Packer (Mostly out of print)

• Dark Intruder (1952)

• Spring Fire (1952)

• Look Back to Love (1953)

• Come Destroy Me (1954)

• Whisper His Sin (1954)

• The Thrill Kids (1955)

• The Young and Violent (1956)

• Dark Don't Catch Me (1956)

• 3 Day Terror (1957)

• The Evil Friendship (1958)

• 5:45 to Surburbia (1958)

• The Twisted Ones (1959)

• The Girl on the Best Seller List (1960)

• The Damnation of Adam Blessing (1961)

• Intimate Victims (1962)

• Something in the Shadows (1962)

• Alone at Night (1963)

• Sudden Endings (1964)

• The Hare in March (1967)

• Don't Rely on Gemini (1969)