Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn is the author of Geek Love , which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Bram Stoker Award, as well as the novels Attic and Truck . She was an award-winning boxing journalist whose work appeared in Esquire , KO Magazine , The New York Times Magazine , Playboy , The Ring , Sports Illustrated , and Vogue . Her writing on boxing is collected in One Ring Circus . In 2004, Dunn and the photographer Jim Lommasson won the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize for their work on...See more
Katherine Dunn is the author of Geek Love , which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Bram Stoker Award, as well as the novels Attic and Truck . She was an award-winning boxing journalist whose work appeared in Esquire , KO Magazine , The New York Times Magazine , Playboy , The Ring , Sports Illustrated , and Vogue . Her writing on boxing is collected in One Ring Circus . In 2004, Dunn and the photographer Jim Lommasson won the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize for their work on the book Shadow Boxers . Dunn died in 2016. See less
Katherine Dunn's Featured Books
Katherine Dunn book reviews
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Geek Love
Quirky and beautiful
by Courtney, Jan 10, 2017
I absolutely loved this book, but it did take me quite some time to get through. The author has created this magically freaky world that you just don't want to leave. Arty's freaky followers were ... Read More
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Geek Love
Interesting and Twisted
I had been waiting to read this book for years. A friend of mine loves it and had recommended it several times.
I thought it started out great. A family of carnies expands by experimenting on ... Read More
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Geek Love
Excellent
I have never before been as engrossed in a novel as I have in Geek Love. The story is just out of left field; a mother, with the father's encouragement, takes narcotics and other degenerative drugs ... Read More