Geek Love Author Katherine Dunn Has Died At 70Anna Merlan5/13/16 10:10am7411EditInvite manuallyPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkKatherine Dunn, the author of the darkly beautiful, disturbing, surreal carnival novel Geek Love, died on May 11 at age 70. Her son told Willamette Week the cause was complications from lung cancer.