Acker, Kathy, 1948-

• 1948: Born.
• 1963 - 65 : Studied Classics at Brandeis University.
• 1967: Received BA from University of California at San Diego (UCSD).
• 1968 - 1970 : Studied at UCSD Department of Literature.
• 1971: Studied at New York University Classics Department.
• 1975: Published The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula.
• 1975 - 1976 : Creative Artists' Public Services Program New York State Grant For Fiction.
• 1978: Published Kathy Goes to Haiti.
• 1980: Published I Dreamt I Became A Nymphomaniac: Imagining.
• 1980: Published The Adult Life of Toulouse-Lautrec.
• 1980 - 1981 : Instructor, The San Francisco Art Institute, Video and Performance Department.
• 1981: Pushcart Prize.
• 1982: Published Hello, I'm Erica Jong.
• 1983: Published Great Expectations.
• 1984: Published Algeria: A Series of Invocations Because Nothing Else Works.
• 1984: Published Blood and Guts in High School.
• 1986: Published Don Quixote.
• 1988: Published Empire of the Senseless.
• 1988: My Death, My Life, By Pier Paolo Pasolini published in Literal Madness.
• 1989: Published Young Lust; Kathy Goes to Haiti; The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec; Florida.
• 1990: Published The Seven Cardinal Virtues.
• 1990: Published In Memoriam to Identity.
• 1991: Published Hannibal Lecteur, My Father.
• 1991 - 1995 : Adjunct Professor, San Francisco Art Institute.
• 1992: Published Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels.
• 1993: Published My Mother Demonology.
• 1994: Visiting Professor, UCSD.
• 1994: Visiting Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara.
• 1994: Visiting Professor, University of Idaho.
• 1996: Published Pussy, King of the Pirates.
• 1997: Died.

From the guide to the Kathy Acker Papers, 1972-1997 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)