![]() ![]() Her mother and stepfather had hoped she would marry a wealthy man and did not expect the marriage to Acker to last long. Robert Acker was the son of lower-middle-class Polish-Jewish immigrants. As an undergraduate at Brandeis University, she studied Classics and "took advantage of loosened mores, attending orgies thrown by theatre kids." In 1966, she married Robert Acker, and took his surname. Education Īcker attended the Birch Wathen Lenox School, a private school for girls on the Upper East Side. As an adult, Acker tried to track down her father, but abandoned her search after she discovered that her father had disappeared after killing a trespasser on his yacht and spending six months in a psychiatric asylum until the state excused him of murder charges. In 1978, Claire Alexander, Karen's mother, committed suicide. Acker was raised in her mother and stepfather's home in the Sutton Place neighborhood of Manhattan's prosperous Upper East Side. By the time of Kathy's death, she had requested that her friends not contact Wendy, as some had suggested. Karen (later Kathy) had a half-sister, Wendy, by her mother's second marriage, but the two women were never close and long estranged. ![]() Her mother soon remarried, to Albert Alexander, whose surname Karen was given, although the writer later described her mother's union with Alexander as a passionless marriage to an ineffectual man. Her relationship with her domineering mother even into adulthood was fraught with hostility and anxiety because Acker felt unloved and unwanted. The pregnancy was unplanned Donald Lehman abandoned the family before Karen's birth. ("I was trained to run away from Polish Jews.") I don't run away from it, it just means nothing to me" and elaborated that her parents were "high-German Jews" who held cultural prejudices against Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews. In an interview with the magazine Tattoo Jew, Acker stated that religious Judaism "means nothing to me. According to Acker, her grandparents were "first generation French-German Jews" whose ancestors originally hailed from the Pale of Settlement. Acker's grandparents went into political exile from Alsace-Lorraine prior to World War I, due to the rising nationalism of pre-Nazi Germany, moving to Paris and then to the United States. Her paternal grandmother, Florence Weill, was an Austrian Jew who had inherited a small fortune from her husband's glove-making business. Her family was from a wealthy, assimilated, German-Jewish background that was culturally but not religiously Jewish. Most obituaries, including The New York Times, cited her birth year as 1944. and died November 30, 1997, Tijuana, Mexico. The only child of Donald and Claire (nee Weill) Lehman, Acker was born Karen Lehman in New York City in 1947, although the Library of Congress gives her birth year as 1948, while the editors of Encyclopædia Britannica gave her birth year as April 18, 1948, New York, New York, U.S. Burroughs, David Antin, Carolee Schneeman, Eleanor Antin, French critical theory, mysticism, and pornography, as well as classic literature. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, William S. Kathy Acker (Ap – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion. ![]()
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