Biography valerie solanas
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Biography of Valerie Solanas, Radical Feminist Author
Valerie jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was a radical feminist activist and author. Her major claims to fame were her SCUM Manifesto and her attempt on the life of Andy Warhol.
Fast Facts: Valerie Solanas
- Full Name: Valerie Jean Solanas
- Born: April 9, 1936 in Ventnor City, New Jersey
- Died: April 25, 1988 in San Francisco, California
- Parents: Louis Solanas and Dorothy Marie Biondo
- Education: University of Maryland
- Known For: Radical feminist author who penned the anti-patriarchal SCUM Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol in a paranoid episode
Early Life
Solanas was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the first daughter of bartender Louis Solanas and dental assistant Dorothy Marie Biondo. She also had a younger sister, Judith Arlene Solanas Martinez. Early in Solanas’ life, her parents divorced and her mother remarried; she did not get along with her stepfather. Solanas said that her father
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Valerie Solanas
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Valerie Solanas (1977): "I should have done target practice."
to Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol
Valerie Solanas was the woman who shot Andy Warhol. Afterwards she rejected the support of the women's liberation movement, accusing the National Organization of Women of stealing her ideas.
She also accused Andy Warhol of stealing a play she wrote which he had apparently lost. She was quoted in the press as saying she shot Warhol in order to get his attention and that talking to him was like talking to a chair.
Valerie Solanas was born April 9, 1936 to a twenty-one year old bartender, Louis Solanas, and an eighteen year old dental assistant named Dorothy Biondo. A the time of Valerie's birth they were both living at 104 South Frankfort Avenue in Ventnor City, New Jersey. Valerie's last name on her birth certificate is spelled "Solanus." Her father's last name is also spelled "Solanus." (FAH9)
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Valerie Solanas: Learn About the Woman Who Shot Andy Warhol
Valerie Jean Solanas was born April 9, 1936, to Dorothy and Louis Solanas of Ventnor City, New Jersey. Her parents split by the time she was four, sending their two daughters to live with their grandparents in nearby Atlantic City before Valerie eventually reunited with her mother.
According to Breanne Fahs' Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol), Solanas was a smart, funny child. She learned to play piano at age 7, and before long was rewriting popular songs with silly substitute lyrics.
Solanas also may have been sexually abused by her alcoholic father (a claim she later repeated to friends and psychologists), and by adolescence, an aggressive rebellious streak had emerged. Pulled from her Catholic middle school after attacking a nun, she twice became pregnant by age 15 – the first time allegedly by a relative, the other likely by an older sailor; both babies were tak