- Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn is a best-selling
novelist ,journalist , voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, andpoet fromPortland, Oregon .Personal life
Dunn was born in
Kansas City, Kansas in 1945. She went to high school inTigard, Oregon , and later attendedReed College in Portland. Following her time at Reed, Ms. Dunn spent several years in Europe traveling. While in Ireland, she had a child, and five years later she returned with her son to the United States.In the 1970s Dunn hosted a radio show on Portland's community radio station
KBOO , in which she would read short stories. Her work experience ranges from tending bar, painting houses, and waiting tables, to teaching advanced classes in creative writing at Oregon'sLewis & Clark College and voice-over work.Writer
Dunn's novel "
Geek Love " was a finalist for theNational Book Award in 1989. She also wrote the novels "Attic" (1970) and "Truck" (1971). In 1989, Dunn announced that she was working on a fourth novel, entitled "The Cut Man". ["The Guardian", April 1989] It has not yet been published, but is scheduled for a September 2008 release.cite news
title=But you promised!
last=Starr
first=Karla
date=2006-02-01
work=Willamette Week
url=http://wweek.com/editorial/3213/7205/]Dunn also wrote the text for "Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook" (1995), a book of homicide photography; the humorous "The Slice: Information with an Attitude" (1989) (also published as "Why Do Men Have Nipples? And Other Low-Life Answers to Real-Life Questions" (1990)0, which contains her collected newspaper columns from "
Willamette Week ", a Portland weekly newspaper; "3 Day Fox: A Tattoo", a poem; and numerous articles for "Playboy ", "Vogue", and the "L.A. Times".Dunn, who has been described as "one of the better boxing writers in the United States," is an editor and contributor for the online boxing magazine
cyberboxingzone.com . Dunn wrote a regular column onboxing forPDXS in the 1990s, in which she at one time provided detailed criticism ofEvander Holyfield 's sportsmanship in his controversial fight withMike Tyson .Dunn, Katherine., [http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/box9-99.htm#kd Defending Tyson] , "PDXS via cyberboxingzone.com",1997-07-09 , Retrieved on2007-04-18 .] She won the Dorothea Lange—Paul Taylor Award in 2004 for her work on "School of Hard Knocks: The Struggle for Survival in America’s Toughest Boxing Gyms". [ [http://cds.aas.duke.edu/l-t/2004winners.html Announcement of 2004 prize winners] ]References
External links
* [http://www.popmatters.com/features/mft/geek-love-060201.shtml Geek Love book review]
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