Kathy Acker
American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (1947–1997)
Biography
Kathy Acker was born in New York City in 1947 and died in 1997. She worked as a novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, performance artist, and screenwriter. Her writing employed pastiche and the cut-up technique, which involved cutting and scrambling passages and sentences, and combined biographical elements with themes of power, sex, and violence.
Occupation
Kathy Acker is recorded as a prose writer, a comics writer, a essayist, a novelist, a performance artist, a university teacher, a playwright, a poet, a writer and a screenwriter, born in New York (1947–1997).
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