15 Facts About Katherine Dunn

Katherine Karen Dunn was an American novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon.

Katherine Dunn is best known for her novel Geek Love.

Katherine Dunn was the second-youngest of five siblings; her father left before she was two.

Katherine Dunn went to high school in Tigard, Oregon, and later attended Reed College in Portland on a full scholarship, but never graduated.

Katherine Dunn gave birth to her son in Dublin, Ireland.

Katherine Dunn settled in the Nob Hill neighborhood, where she resided until her death.

Katherine Dunn waited tables in the morning before her son woke up, and tended bars at night, painted houses, and did voice-over work.

In 1981, Katherine Dunn began writing about boxing in Willamette Week.

Katherine Dunn has been described as "one of the better boxing writers in the United States".

Katherine Dunn was an editor and contributor for the online boxing magazine cyberboxingzone.

Katherine Dunn's third published novel was Geek Love, and it was by far her best-known work.

Katherine Dunn described her memory of when she began writing it in the late 1970s, walking to Portland's Washington Park Rose Garden, contemplating nature versus nurture and the genesis of the book with its publication in 1989.

In 1989, Katherine Dunn announced that she was working on a new novel, entitled The Cut Man.

In 2012, Katherine Dunn reunited with Paul Pomerantz, her boyfriend from Reed College, and they married.

Katherine Dunn's son stated her death was from complications of lung cancer.