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A Short Biography of Kathy Acker

Author Name:

Kathy Acker

Born As:

Karen Lehman.

Other Names:

Born:

18 Apr 1947

Died:

30 Nov 1997




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Novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist, poète maudit and sex-positive feminist writer                          
Selected Works:

Politics - 1972
Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula By the Black Tarantula - 1973
I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining - 1974
Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec - 1978
N.Y.C. in 1979 - 1981
Great Expectations - 1983
Algeria : A Series of Invocations Because Nothing Else Works - 1984
Blood and Guts in High School - 1984
Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream - 1986
Literal Madness: Three Novels - Reprinted 1987
My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Florida
Wordplays 5 : An Anthology of New American Drama - 1987
Empire of the Senseless - 1988
In Memoriam to Identity - 1990
Kathy Goes To Haiti - 1990
Hannibal Lecter, My Father - 1991
My Mother: Demonology - 1994
Pussycat Fever - 1995
Dust. Essays - 1995
Pussy, King of the Pirates - 1996
Bodies of Work : Essays - 1997
Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels - Reprinted 1998
Redoing Childhood - 2000 spoken word CD, KRS 349.
"Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective" - pub. 2002 from manuscript of 1973.                          
First spouse Robert Acker
Second spouse Peter Gordon
Mother  Claire Weill
Father Donald Lehman, left before Kathy was born.