Katherine Karen Dunn (October 24, 1945 – May 11, 2016) was an American novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. She is best known for her novel Geek Love (1989). She was also a prolific writer on boxing.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Attic (1970)
Truck (1971)
Geek Love (1989)
Toad (1 November 2022)
Short stories
3 day fox : a tattoo (1979) (chapbook)
“The Resident Poet” – published in The New Yorker on May 11, 2020
“The Education of Mrs. R.” – published in The Paris Review Fall 2022 issue.
Short story collection, title TBA (Fall 2022)
Nonfiction
The Slice: Information with an Attitude (1989)
One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing (2009)
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