Background
Dunn was born in Garden City, Kansas in 1945. She was the second-youngest of five siblings. Her father left before she was two, and her mother, an artist, married a fisherman from the Pacific Northwest.
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Katherine Dunn
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She went to high school in Tigard, Oregon, and later attended Reed College in Portland, initially majoring in philosophy, then psychology.
Career
She is best known for the novel Geek Love. 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 Manitoba
She was reportedly still living in Portland and working on the book in 1999.
In 2008, it was reported that publisher Alfred A. Knopf had scheduled The Cut Manitoba for release in September, but the novel was not published at that time. An excerpt appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of The Paris Review under the title Rhonda Discovers Artist
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), 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 Los Angeles 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 on boxing for PDXS in the 1990s, in which she at one time provided detailed criticism of Evander Holyfield"s sportsmanship in his controversial fight with Mike Tyson.
Her essays on boxing were collected in the 2009 anthology One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing.
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