Acker, Kathy

[Kathy Acker]

Kathy Acker
(née Karen Alexander)
(1947-1997)

Select Bibliography:

1. Acker, Kathy. Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America: the Destruction of the U.S. New York: Grove Press, 2002.


2. Acker, Kathy. Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels (The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula; I Dreamt I was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining; The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec). 1973, 1974, 1975. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.


3. Acker, Kathy. Blood and Guts in High School, Plus Two: Blood and Guts in High School; Great Expectations; My Death, My Life, by Pier Paolo Pasolini. 1978, 1982, 1983. London: Picador, 1984.


4. Acker, Kathy. Blood and Guts in High School, Plus Two: Blood and Guts in High School; Great Expectations; My Death, My Life, by Pier Paolo Pasolini. 1978, 1982, 1983. London: Picador, 1984.


5. Acker, Kathy. Blood and Guts in High School. 1984. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989.


6. Acker, Kathy. Young Lust: Kathy Goes to Haiti; The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec; Florida. 1987, 1975, 1987. London: Pandora, 1989.


7. Acker, Kathy. Kathy Goes to Haiti. 1978. 2nd ed. 1989. London: Pandora, 1990.


8. Acker, Kathy. Don Quixote, which was a dream. London: Paladin, 1986.


9. Acker, Kathy. Empire of the Senseless. London: Picador, 1988.


10. Acker, Kathy. In Memoriam to Identity: A Novel. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.


11. Acker, Kathy. My Mother: Demonology. New York: Grove Press, 1993.


12. Acker, Kathy. Pussy, King of the Pirates. New York: Grove Press, 1996.


13. Acker, Kathy. Bodies of Work: Essays. London: Serpent’s Tail, 1997.


14. Acker, Kathy. Hannibal Lecter, My Father. Semiotext(e) Native Agents Series. Ed. Sylvère Lotringer. New York: Semiotext(e), 1991.


15. Acker, Kathy. Eurydice in the Underworld. London: Arcadia Books, 1997.


16. Acker, Kathy. Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker. Ed. Amy Schneider & Dennis Cooper. Introduction by Jeanette Winterson. New York: Grove Press, 2002.


17. Fell, Alison, ed. The Seven Deadly Sins: Kathy Acker, Leslie Dick, Zoë Fairbairns, Alison Fell, Sara Maitland, Agnes Owens, & Michèle Roberts. Illustrations by Amanda Faulkner. London: Serpent’s Tail, 1988.


18. Fell, Alison, ed. The Seven Cardinal Virtues: Kathy Acker, Leslie Dick, Zoë Fairbairns, Alison Fell, Sara Maitland, Agnes Owens, & Michèle Roberts. Illustrations by Grizelda Holderness. London: Serpent’s Tail, 1990.

Biography & Secondary Literature:

Hardin, Michael, ed. Devouring Institutions: The Life Work of Kathy Acker. San Diego, CA: Hyperbole / San Diego State University Press, 2004.

Harryman, Carla , Avital Ronell, & Amy Scholder, ed. Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker. London: Verso, 2006.

Kadrey, Richard. "Black Tarantula: The Intense Life and Uncompromising Death of Renegade Writer Kathy Acker." Salon (3 Dec. 1997).

Ross, Jack. "Kathy Goes to Mexico: In Memoriam Kathy Acker, d. 30/11/97." Pander 5 (1998): 26-27.

Sirius, R U. "Kathy Acker: Where Does She Get Off? An Interview." Wired (1994).

Viegener, Matias. "Matias Speaks." (1997).

X, Rosie. "Pussy and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance; or, How to be a Pirate on–line and channel your energies so as to remember your dream... Kathy Acker interviewed." Geekgirl (1995).

Homepages & Online Information:

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