Person Open DS/UK/20070 Acker; Kathy (18 April 1947-30 November 1997); American novelist, playwright and activist Acker Kathy 18 April 1947-30 November 1997 American novelist, playwright and activist Female (cisgender) Karen Lehmann | Karen Alexander Black Tarantula New York City, New York, United States (born)

San Diego, San Francisco and New York (residence) London, England (residence) Tijuana, Mexico (died)

American Spoken and Written Word | Novelist, Playwright, Poet White No known disability Jewish Daughter of Donald Lehman and Claire Weill - Culturally German-Jewish background Adoptive daughter of Albert Alexander Granddaughter of Florence Weill (Austrian Jewish) and her husband (glove-making business) Former spouse of Robert Acker and Peter Gordon (composer) Former partner of Sylvère Lotringer (critic), Peter Wollen (filmmaker) and Charles Shaar Murray (critic) Bisexual / Pansexual Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, Carolee Schneeman, Eleanor Antin, French critical theory, mysticism, pornography and classic literature. Acker published her first book, Politics, in 1972. In 1973, she published her first novel (under the pseudonym Black Tarantula), The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: Some Lives of Murderesses. The following year, she published her second novel, I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining. Acker's family were wealthy, assimilated, German-Jewish background that was culturally but not religiously Jewish. Acker's grandparents went into political exile from Alsace-Lorraine prior to World War I due to the rising nationalism of pre-Nazi Germany, moving to Paris and then to the United States. Family, Friendship and Relationships: Acker's birth was unplanned. Her biological father abandoned the family before her birth. Her mother, Claire, remarried Albert Alexander. Her relationship with her mother was hostile. In 1978, she committed suicide. Kathy decided to try and trace her father, but abandoned the search after discovering that he had disappeared after killing a trespasser on his yacht and spending 6 months in a psychiatric asylum until the state excused his murder charges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Acker International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHdroberts 8/27/2014 RAHAKIRKBRIDE 8/1/2024 02485728-e346-4e2a-ab7d-c964ca748056