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Kathy Acker

1947 - 1997

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Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 [disputed] – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, critic, performance artist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with complex themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality, language, identity, and rebellion. Her writing incorporates pastiche and the cut-up technique, involving cutting-up and scrambling passages and sentences; she also defined her writing as existing in the post-nouveau roman European tradition. In her texts, she combines biographical elements, power, sex and violence. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kathy Acker is the 4,439th most popular writer (down from 4,136th in 2019), the 6,607th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,436th in 2019) and the 498th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Kathy Acker ranks 4,439 out of 7,302. Before her are Yevgeny Petrov, Orhan Kemal, Gloria Fuertes, Ippolito Nievo, Vicente Espinel, and Dmitry Grigorovich. After her are Josephine Diebitsch Peary, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Joe Eszterhas, Justine Siegemund, Nicholas Pileggi, and Yōko Ogawa.

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Among people born in 1947, Kathy Acker ranks 466. Before her are John Aston Jr., Michael Ignatieff, Jude Ciccolella, Michèle Pierre-Louis, Peter Riegert, and William Bonin. After her are Rita Kühne, Teemu Sippo, Linda Thorson, John Johnson, Ladislav Kuna, and Nicolae Dobrin. Among people deceased in 1997, Kathy Acker ranks 200. Before her are Léon Poliakov, Natallia Arsiennieva, Bozorg Alavi, Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Corneliu Baba, and Arthur Machado. After her are Luigi Cantone, Juzo Itami, Chūhei Nambu, Ivan Yarygin, Robert Pinget, and Tete Montoliu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kathy Acker ranks 6,608 out of 20,380. Before her are Mimi Leder (1952), Steve Bullock (1966), Albert Collins (1932), Neil Campbell (1946), Frederick C. Weyand (1916), and Julius Katchen (1926). After her are Metacomet (1639), Jim Jordan (1964), Noodles (1963), Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863), Dorothy Gish (1898), and Nicky Hayden (1981).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Kathy Acker ranks 498. Before her are Eudora Welty (1909), Betty Mahmoody (1945), Irving Wallace (1916), Diane Ackerman (1948), James Salter (1925), and Connie Willis (1945). After her are Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863), Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906), Nicholas Pileggi (1933), Diane Disney Miller (1933), Lloyd Alexander (1924), and Tracy Chevalier (1962).

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