Kathy Acker biography
Date of birth : 1947-04-18
Date of death : 1997-11-30
Birthplace : New York City, New York, US
Nationality : American
Category : Famous Figures
Last modified : 2011-05-09
Credited as : Novelist and punk poet, Blood and Guts in High School,
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Formerly a stripper, Acker supported pornography and hated Andrea Dworkin. After a 1996 diagnosis with breast cancer, Acker received a double mastectomy but refused chemotherapy. She died at an alternative cancer clinic in Tijuana.
Author of books:
The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula (1973, novel)
Hello, I'm Erica Jong (1982, novel)
Great Expectations (1982, novel)
Blood and Guts in High School (1984, novel)
Don Quixote (1986, novel)
Literal Madness (1987, novel)
Empire of the Senseless (1988, novel)
My Mother: Demonology (1993, short stories)
Pussy, King of the Pirates (1995, novel)
