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Katherine Dunn

Biography

Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn is the author of GEEK LOVE, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Bram Stoker Prize, as well as the novels ATTIC, TRUCK, ONE-RING CIRCUS and ON CUSSING. She was an award-winning boxing journalist whose work appeared in Esquire, KO Magazine, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Playboy, The Ring, Sports Illustrated and Vogue. In 2004, Dunn and photographer Jim Lommasson won the Lange-Taylor Documentary Prize for their work on the book SHADOW BOXERS. She died in 2016.

Katherine Dunn

Books by Katherine Dunn

by Katherine Dunn - Fiction, Humor

Sally Gunnar spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs and waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of goldfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning supplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her own body, and her wayward early 20s, when she was a fish out of water among a group of eccentric, privileged young people at a liberal arts college. There was Sam, an unabashed collector of other people’s stories; Carlotta, a troubled free spirit; and Rennel, a self-obsessed philosophy student. Self-deprecating and sardonic, Sally recounts their misadventures, up to the tragedy that tore them apart.