Books by Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas was born in Ventor, New Jersey in 1936. She was living in Greenwich Village in New York City in 1967 when she wrote "Up Your Ass," a play, and sought out Andy Warhol to produce it. She appeared in Warhol's film "I, A Man", and then she shot him in 1968. she was inicted on charges of attempted murder, assault, and illegal possession of a gun, sent to a psychiatric hospital, and released after three years. In 1988, she died of emphysema and pnerumonia in a welfare hospital in San Francisco. Avital Ronell, a professor of German and comparative Literature and the chair of the German Department at New York University, is the author of Stupidity; Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania; Finitude's Score: Essays for the end of the Millennium; The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech; and Dictations: Unhaunted Writings