# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lisa-ben
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:39:27.614Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lisa-ben"
name: "Lisa Ben"
slug: "lisa-ben"
description: "Edythe D. Eyde better known by her pen name Lisa Ben, was an American editor, author, active fantasy-fiction fan and fanzine contributor, and songwriter. She created the first known lesbian publication in North America, Vice Versa. Ben produced the magazine for a year and distributed it locally in Los Angeles, California, in the late 1940s. She was also active in lesbian bars as a musician in the years following her involvement with Vice Versa. Eyde has been recognized as a pioneer in the LGBT movement and the foremother of the women in print movement during second-wave feminism."
tagline: "American writer (1921–2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Edythe_Eyde.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1921-11-07"
deathDate: "2015-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.45
  momentum:             0.2465753424657534
  historical:           7.013464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0069992/"
    handle:    "nm0069992"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b4773e32-f790-46ec-8765-ccc68034f2f4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ليزا بين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ليزا بين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Ben"
    title: "Lisa Ben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Ben"
    title: "Lisa Ben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Ben"
    title: "Lisa Ben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Ben"
    title: "Lisa Ben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6557806"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1338188"
    title: "Lisa Ben"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump