Together, they traveled to Mexico, Boston, Newfoundland, and Seville, where she finished Attic, then to Karpathos. During a Christmas break trip to Ashbury Heights in 1967 she met a man she would spend the next ten years with. Later life and career ĭunn began her first novel Attic (1970) while studying at Reed College. In college she majored in philosophy and then psychology. Poverty was an important element in her novels as well. She suffered a difficult childhood due to poverty and a violent mother. She went to high school in Tigard, Oregon, and later attended Reed College in Portland on a full scholarship, but never graduated. The family moved often during her childhood. Her mother, Velma Golly, an artist from North Dakota, married a mechanic or/and fisherman from the Pacific Northwest. She was the second-youngest of five siblings her father left before she was two. She was also a prolific writer on boxing.ĭunn was born in Garden City, Kansas, in 1945. She is best known for her novel Geek Love (1989). Katherine Karen Dunn (Octo– May 11, 2016) was an American novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon.
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