Editing Valerie Solanas (section)

== Later life and death ==
After Solanas was released from the New York State Prison for Women in 1971,<ref>{{harvp|Buchanan|2011|p=48}}.</ref> she [[Stalking|stalked]] Warhol and others over the telephone.<ref name="AKPress55" /> In November 1971, Solanas [[Recidivism|was arrested again]] for aggravated assault after threatening [[Barney Rosset]], editor of ''[[Evergreen Review]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brilliant, Damaged & Damaging: Revisiting Valerie Solanas, Andy Warhol's Would-Be Killer |url=https://www.out.com/entertainment/art-books/2014/03/28/valerie-solanas-woman-wrote-scum-shot-andy-warhol |access-date=October 25, 2024 |website=www.out.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sullivan |first=James |date=February 23, 2017 |title='Rosset: My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship' |url=https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Rosset-My-Life-in-Publishing-and-How-I-Fought-10953953.php |website=SF Gate}}</ref> She was subsequently institutionalized several times and then drifted into obscurity.<ref>{{harvp|Solanas|1996|pp=55–56}}.</ref>

In the mid-1970s, according to Heller, Solanas was "apparently homeless" in New York City, "continued to defend her political beliefs and the ''SCUM Manifesto''", and "actively promoted" her new ''Manifesto'' revision.<ref name="Heller_164">{{harvp|Heller|2008|p=164}}.</ref>

Solanas may have intended to write an eponymous autobiography.<ref>{{harvp|Winkiel|1999|p=74}}.</ref> In a 1977 ''Village Voice'' interview,<ref name="Heller_151">{{harvp|Heller|2008|p=151}}.</ref> she announced a book with her name as the title.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Howard |author1-link=Howard Smith (director) |last2=Van der Horst |first2=Brian |title=Valerie Solanas Interview |department="Scenes" column |work=The Village Voice |volume=XXII |issue=30 |date=July 25, 1977}}</ref> The book, possibly intended as a parody, was supposed to deal with the "conspiracy" that led to her imprisonment.<ref name="Heller_151" /> In a corrective 1977 ''Village Voice'' interview, Solanas said the book would not be autobiographical other than a small portion and that it would be about many things, include proof of statements in the manifesto, and would "deal {{em|very}} intensively with the subject of bullshit", but she said nothing about parody.<ref name="replies" />

Solanas worked for a year and a half as an editor for ''[[Majority Report]]'', a biweekly feminist publication.<ref name=":0" />

[[File:Grave of Valerie Jean Solanas - Stierch.JPG|thumb|The grave of Valerie Jean Solanas at Saint Marys Catholic Church Cemetery, Fairfax County, Virginia]]In the late 1980s, [[Isabelle Collin Dufresne|Ultra Violet]] tracked down Solanas in [[northern California]] and interviewed her over the phone.<ref>{{harvp|Violet|1990|p=v}}.</ref> According to Ultra Violet, Solanas had changed her name to Onz Loh and stated that the August 1968 version of the ''Manifesto'' had many errors, unlike her own printed version of October 1967, and that the book had not sold well. Solanas said that until she was informed by Violet, she was unaware of Warhol's death in 1987.<ref>{{harvp|Violet|1990|pp=183–189}}.</ref>{{Efn|Violet objected to assassination;<ref>{{harvp|Violet|1990|p=189}}.</ref> for a possible contrast in her views and another near-killing of Warhol, see: {{harvp|Violet|1990|p=241}}.}}

On April 25, 1988, at the age of 52, Valerie Solanas died of [[pneumonia]] at the [[Hotel Bristol|Bristol Hotel]] in the [[Tenderloin, San Francisco|Tenderloin district]] of San Francisco.<ref>{{harvp|Watson|2003|p=425}}.</ref> A building superintendent at the hotel, not on duty that night, had a vague memory of Solanas: "Once, he had to enter her room, and he saw her typing at her desk. There was a pile of typewritten pages beside her. What she was writing and what happened to the manuscript remain a mystery."<ref name="Coburn" /><ref>{{harvp|Harron|1996|p=xxxi}}.</ref> Her mother burned all her belongings posthumously.<ref name="Coburn" />