What is Valerie Solanas?
[[File:Valerie Solanas.jpg|thumb|Valerie Solanas]] '''Valerie Jean Solanas''' (9 April 1936 – 25 April 1988) was an [[Americans|American]] [[radical feminist]] author and [[playwright]]. Solanas was born in [[Ventnor City, New Jersey]]. She was a [[lesbian]] [[misandry|misandrist]]. She wrote many notable non-fiction books, and self-published ''[[SCUM Manifesto]]'' in 1968. That year, she shot [[Andy Warhol]] and [[Mario Amaya]]. In 1969, she was [[diagnose]]d with [[schizophrenia]]. She was convicted of [[assault]] and sent to prison. She was released in 1971. She died due to complications of [[pneumonia]] in [[San Francisco|a San Francisco welfare hotel]] in 1988, aged 52. {{us-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Solanas, Valerie}} [[Category:American feminist writers]] [[Category:American people convicted of assault]] [[Category:American playwrights]] [[Category:American radical feminists]] [[Category:Deaths from pneumonia]] [[Category:Infectious disease deaths in California]] [[Category:LGBT people from New Jersey]] [[Category:American LGBT writers]] [[Category:People with schizophrenia]] [[Category:Writers from New Jersey]] [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:1988 deaths]] [[Category:Andy Warhol]]