Kathy Acker

The authorities additionally record the headings Karen Lehmann, Black Tarantula, Clay Fear and The Black Tarantula. Her recorded language was English.

Kathy Acker studied at City University of New York, University of California, San Diego and Brandeis University. Her recorded influences include William S. Burroughs.

48 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1978 to 2023.

Blood and Guts in High School. The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula. Pussy, King of the Pirates. Empire of the Senseless. In Memoriam to Identity. Don Quixote. Hannibal Lecter, My Father. I dreamt I became a nymphomaniac! Cindy Sherman. The Last Sex. Great expectations, dated 1982. Kathy Acker (1971-1975). Young Lust. When Addressing a Mass. Pussy King of the Pirates (Reissue). El imperio de los sinsentidos. Acker. I'm Very into You. The birth of the poet. Requiem. Kathy Acker. Kathy Acker : The Last Interview. Lisede Kan ve Cesaret. Harte Mädchen weinen nicht. The artist in society. The Seven cardinal virtues. Melkweg in focus. Mein Tod, mein Leben. Implosion. Adult Life of Toulouse, dated 1978. Algeria, dated 1984. Blood and guts in high school, plus two, dated 1987. Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula, dated 1978. Dust, dated 1996. Essential Acker, dated 2002. Hello, I'm Erica Jong (Contact Publications Series), dated 1982. I dreamt I was a nymphomaniac imagining, dated 1980. In Memoriam to Identity (Acker, Kathy), dated 1998. Literal Madness: Three Novels, dated 1994. N. Y. C. in Nineteen Seventy-Nine, dated 1981. Pussy, dated 1999. Pussycat Fever, dated 1995. When the sick rule the world / Dodie Bellamy., dated [2015], held by Wellcome Collection. Virus / Linda Stupart., dated 2016, held by Wellcome Collection. Posthuman bodies / edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston., dated [1995], held by Wellcome Collection. Argento series / Kevin Killian ; with a foreword by Derek McCormack., dated 2023, held by Wellcome Collection. The Shape of the Signifier : 1967 to the End of History / Walter Benn Michaels, Walter Benn Michaels., dated 2004, held by Wellcome Collection. Bad Girls and Sick Boys : Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture / Linda S. Kauffman., dated 1998, held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 6 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

12 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Introduction: Kathy Acker and the Avant-Garde, Kathy Acker, 2016. Kathy Acker, 2016. A Letter to Kathy Acker, Eat your Heart Out, 2022. Kathy Acker: Jewish Woman Writer, Eat your Heart Out, 2022. Transgression Now, Akademisk Kvarter, 2011. Kritik patriarchaler Macht und Sprache in Kathy Ackers Blood and Guts in High School, Gender, 2022. McKenzie Wark, Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker, European Journal of American Studies, 2023. Expropriating the Canon, Compendium, 2023. Per una poetica del plagio: il caso di Kathy Acker, Between, 2012. Zairja, Missiles, Bees: William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin in David Blair’s Wax, European Journal of American Studies, 2025. The Dickensian Tropism in Contemporary Fiction, Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2012. Butler, Alice. 2026. Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller and Love-in-Pieces. Durham, NC: Duke University Press., Compendium, 2026.

This heading is established in Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (1279772131). Those registers additionally record the forms Kathy-Acker-Symposium (2018 : Karlsruhe) and Kathy Acker Symposion (2018 : Karlsruhe).

4 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

hannibal lecter, my father (1991) — Internet Archive. (2019) Kathy Acker 1971-1975 (2019) — Internet Archive. Rip-off Red, girl detective and the burning bombing of America (2002) — Internet Archive. Don Quixote, which was a dream (1986) — Internet Archive.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 35 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Kathy Acker studied at City University of New York, University of California, San Diego and Brandeis University. the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is poetry, essay and belletristic literature. William S. Burroughs is recorded as an influence.

Works named in the authority record are Blood and Guts in High School.

Work by Kathy Acker is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art.