Katherine Dunn has died. She was 70 years old.
The Washington Post reports that Dunn became very well-known for the comic novel Geek Love. This project was the first manuscript acquisition of Knopf editor-in-chief Sonny Mehta; the publisher released it in 1989.
Here’s more from The New York Times: “Geek Love, published nearly a decade later, went on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies and become a National Book Award finalist in 1989. It was her third novel, after Attic in 1970 and Truck in 1971, and the last she would publish.” (via Vogue)