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(1948-1997) Novelist, poet. Kathy Acker was born in Manhattan, New York, in 1948 and died in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1997.

Full Name

Kathy Acker

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Acker did post-graduate work at City University of New York in Manhattan, New York.

1948

BIRTH

Karen Alexander was born in Manhattan, New York, in 1948. Her first husband was Robert Acker.

1972

LITWORK

Politics


Poem and essay collection.

1973

LITWORK

The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: Some Lives of Murderesses


Acker's first novel.

1974

LITWORK

I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining


Acker's second novel.

1978

LITWORK

Florida / Kathy Goes to Haiti / The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec


Collection of three novels.

1979

LITWORK

New York City in 1979


Short story.

1982

LITWORK

Great Expectations


Novel.

1982

LITWORK

Hello, I���m Erica Jong


Chapbook.

1984

LITWORK

Blood and Guts in High School


Novel.

1984

LITWORK

My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini


Novel.

1985

LITWORK

Algeria: A Series of Invocations because Nothing Else Works


Novel.

1986

LITWORK

Don Quixote


Novel.

1988

LITWORK

Empire of the Senseless


Novel.

1997

DEATH

Kathy Acker died in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1997.

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