Biography - Part 3

                                                 Works
-A series of compilations of her comic Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008)
-Fun Home (2006)
-Are You My Mother? (2012) *Companion to Fun Home*
As well as stories for various media (mostly magazines)

Awards

Fun Home won:
-2006 Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award
-Lambda Book Award
-2007 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based work
-Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award from the American Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table
-Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award
-Also topped multiple "Best of the Year" lists in magazines/papers/online
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For won the 2008 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction

Career Lows and Highs

A considerable high for Alison would have to be when her first work was published in the 1983 issue of Womannews. From there she built up her collection of comics in the DTWOF series, which eventually included repeating characters and a more direct storyline, eventually becoming a full time cartoonist in 1990. Not that it was exactly a career low point, but Alison kept this up for 23 years before publishing her graphic memoir Fun Home, which had massive mainstream success in comparison. Her companion memoir Are You My Mother? seems to be continuing Alison's previous success, though only published a little earlier this year.

An interview of Alison Bechdel with Wall Street Journal editor Chris Farley, discussing Are You My Mother?