WRITER

Kathy Acker

1947 - 1997

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Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 [disputed] – November 30, 1997) 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kathy Acker has received more than 827,637 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Kathy Acker is the 4,136th most popular writer (up from 4,764th in 2019), the 5,437th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,951st in 2019) and the 444th most popular American Writer.

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  • 830k

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  • 49.93

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

My mother
Romance fiction
1993
Portrait of an eye
Women, Fiction, American Experimental fiction
1992
Blood and Guts in High School
American Experimental fiction
1984
In memoriam to identity
1990
Great expectations
1982
Literal Madness
American Experimental fiction
1987

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kathy Acker ranks 4,136 out of 7,302. Before her are John Christopher, Jurek Becker, Tommaso Landolfi, Brigitte Hamann, Andrée Chedid, and Dominique Fernandez. After her are Klaus Rifbjerg, Aleksey Koltsov, Mirza Khazar, Detlev von Liliencron, Peter Dickinson, and René Wellek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Kathy Acker ranks 410. Before her are Rémi Brague, Afeni Shakur, Luis Ángel González Macchi, Miroslav Vitouš, Lynn Anderson, and Irmgard Möller. After her are Mirza Khazar, Candy Clark, Gerald McRaney, Herbert Mullin, John Larroquette, and George Sabra. Among people deceased in 1997, Kathy Acker ranks 187. Before her are Tamara Tyshkevich, Bozorg Alavi, James Krüss, Alfredo II, Heikki Savolainen, and Jurek Becker. After her are Edmond Leburton, Daniil Shafran, Richard Jaeckel, Helen Jacobs, Eitel Cantoni, and Adriana Caselotti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kathy Acker ranks 5,437 out of 20,380. Before her are John J. McCloy (1895), Babushka Lady (1930), John Ashton (1948), Richard Helms (1913), Joel-Peter Witkin (1939), and William R. Pogue (1930). After her are Henry M. Leland (1843), Mark Donohue (1937), Jennifer Esposito (1973), Vinnie Colaiuta (1956), William D. Coolidge (1873), and Ernest Fenollosa (1853).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Kathy Acker ranks 444. Before her are Daniel Silva (1960), David Crane (1957), T. C. Boyle (1948), Lilian Jackson Braun (1913), Mona Simpson (1957), and Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906). After her are Glen A. Larson (1937), Nicholas Pileggi (1933), Hart Crane (1899), Conrad Aiken (1889), Leigh Brackett (1915), and Louise Erdrich (1954).

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