American writer and criminal Valerie Solanas was BOTD in 1936. Born in Ventnor City, New Jersey, she had a turbulent childhood, involving physical and sexual abuse. She studied psychology at the University of Maryland, openly identifying as lesbian in the homophobic 1950s. She relocated to New York in the 1960s, supporting herself via begging and prostitution, and self-published the SCUM Manifesto, a critique of patriarchy in which women were encouraged to “overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex.” She approached artist Andy Warhol in 1967, asking him to produce her play Up Your Ass. Warhol lost the manuscript and jokingly offered her a job as a typist at The Factory, later putting her in his films I, A Man and Bike Boy. Convinced that Warhol was behind a conspiracy to ruin her career, Solanas shot him and art critic Mario Amaya in 1968, later pleading guilty to attempted murder. After a three-year prison term, she drifted in and out of psychiatric care, continuing to promote the SCUM Manifesto until her death in 1988. Posthumously reclaimed as a feminist and lesbian icon, she has been portrayed onscreen by Lili Taylor in I Shot Andy Warhol and by Lena Dunham in Ryan Murphy‘s TV series American Horror Story: Cult.