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  <name><![CDATA[Kathy Acker]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Born of German-Jewish stock, Kathy Acker was brought up by her mother and stepfather (her natural father left her mother before Kathy was born) in a prosperous district of NY. At 18, she left home and worked as a stripper. Her involvement in the sex industry helped to make her a hit on the NY art schene, and she was photographed by the newly fashionable Robert Mapplethorpe. Preferring to be known simply as 'Acker' (the name she took from her first husband Robert, and which she continued to use even after a short-lived second marriage to composer Peter Gordon), she moved to London in the mid-eighties and stayed in Britain for five years.
Acker's writing is as difficult to classify into any particular genre as she herself was.  She writes fluidly, operating in the borderlands and junkyards of human experience. Her work is experimental, playful, and provocative, engagingly alienating, narratively non sequitur. ]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Black Mountain School, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, fast food, pornography]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>New York</hometown>  <born_at>04/18/1947</born_at>  <died_at>11/30/1997</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Blood and Guts in High School: A Novel]]></title>
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  <average_rating>3.61</average_rating>
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  <published>1978</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Empire of the Senseless]]></title>
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  <average_rating>3.67</average_rating>
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  <published>1988</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Pussy, King of the Pirates]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kathy Acker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>202</ratings_count>
  <published>1996</published>  
  
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        <book id="16151">
  <title><![CDATA[Great Expectations]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kathy Acker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.51</average_rating>
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  <published>1982</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kathy Acker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.77</average_rating>
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  <published>1986</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[My Mother: Demonology]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Kathy Acker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.89</average_rating>
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  <published>1994</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[In Memoriam to Identity]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kathy Acker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.72</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>86</ratings_count>
  <published>1990</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels - The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula, I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac - Imaging, the Adult Life Toulouse]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kathy Acker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.66</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>83</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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        <book id="146897">
  <title><![CDATA[Literal Madness]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Kathy Acker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.96</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>57</ratings_count>
  <published>1987</published>  
  
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        <book id="16149">
  <title><![CDATA[Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kathy Acker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.95</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>43</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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