Biography
1936- On April 9th, Valerie Jean Solanas is born to Louis and Dorothy Bondo Solanas in Ventor, New Jersey
1940s- Valerie’s parents divorce. She moves with her mother to Washington, D.C.
1949- Valerie’s mother marries Red Moran; shortly after, Valerie is sent away to Catholic school
1951- at age 15 Valerie becomes pregnant by a sailor
1954- Solanas graduates from High School. She goes on to attend the University of Maryland, studying
psychology. She supports herself by working in the psych lab and later through prostitution and
panhandling.
1967- Valerie ends up in Greenwich Village, NYC.
-She writes a play entitled, “Up Your Ass;” she seeks out Andy Warhol to produce it.
-Solanas writes the SCUM Manifesto and sells mimeographed copies on the streets of NYC, this is where
she meets publisher Maurice Giordias of the Olympia Press
1968- Valerie announces that she wants to kill her publisher, Girodias, and an underground newspaper
publisher gives her money to buy a gun
-On June 3rd, Valerie shoots Andy Warhol, and several others in his “Factory”
-June 28th, she is indicted on charges of attempted murder, assault and illegal possession of a gun
1973- Valerie is in and out of psychiatric centers
1988- On April 26th, at the age of 52, Valerie Solanas dies of emphysema and pneumonia in San Francisco
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