Adult life

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Even though the memoir Fun Home was focused mainly on the time period surrounding Alison's early life, it did have moments that took place when Alison was already a young adult. After leaving her hometown Beech Creek, she travelled to Great Barrington, Massachusetts to attend Simon's Rock of Bard College before moving to Ohio to continue at Oberlin College (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2007, para. 4). While she spent her first year at Oberlin College, she decided to write a letter to her parents explaining that she was gay. That's when she learned from her mother that her father had relationships with other men, and soon enough her parents were getting a divorce. A few months down the road from that moment, her father got hit by a truck and passed away. However, to this day Alison still believes that it was an act of suicide, and this entire incident is talked about in Fun Home.

Alison graduated from Oberlin College in 1981 and decided to move to Manhattan in order to get accepted into an art college (Webbiography, n.d., para. 3). However, she wasn’t accepted into any of them and had to work office jobs in the publishing industry for about 2 years. In 1983, she began working on the comic strips Dykes to Watch out For, and after a few years of working on it, she was able to quit her job in 1990 as a production manager at a newspaper called Equal Time due to a large amount of success her comic strips brought her (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2007, para. 6).

In 1998, she started working on Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic which took her a while to complete and was eventually published in 2006. This memoir was greeted with large amounts of praise from different critics and magazines. Then in 2008, she decided to stop working on Dykes to Watch out For and work on a second memoir called Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama which was published in 2012.
In 2013, Alison got the honour of watching her memoir Fun Home turn into a musical that eventually reached Broadway theatres in 2015.

Alison won a number of different awards since 2006 and also received grants such as the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014. Alison was also married in 2004 to Amy Rubin but separated in 2006. However, she did get married again in 2015 to Holly Rae Taylor and they both currently reside in Bolton, Vermont ("Alison Bechdel,"n.d.).

Even though Alison doesn’t post very frequently on her social media, here’s a link to her twitter profile if you’re interested in seeing what Alison may be up to.

https://twitter.com/AlisonBechdel

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References

Encyclopedia of World Biography. (2007). Alison Bechdel Biography. Retrieved from
https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2007-A-Co/Bechdel-Alison.html


Webbiography. (n.d). Alison Bechdel: Biography. Retrieved from http://www.webbiography.com/biographies/alison-bechdel

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, November 18). Fun Home (musical). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 06:31, November 21, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fun_Home_(musical)&oldid=926688317


Wikipedia contributors. (2019, November 3). Alison Bechdel. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 07:42, November 21, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alison_Bechdel&oldid=924320669