# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kathy-acker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:43:16.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kathy-acker"
name: "Kathy Acker"
slug: "kathy-acker"
description: "Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, critic, performance artist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with complex themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality, language, identity, and rebellion. Her writing incorporates pastiche and the cut-up technique, involving cutting-up and scrambling passages and sentences; she also defined her writing as existing in the post-nouveau roman European tradition. In her texts, she combines biographical elements, power, sex and violence."
tagline: "American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (1947–1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1996_Kathy_Acker_004.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-04-18"
deathDate: "1997-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.563096
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0009933"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump