last year I read the book Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (which was about a family of circus freaks) and I thought Dunn was an incredible author; probably the best I had ever read. But now it's so hard to find her books and I wondered if anyone else knew anything about her.

There may be something here you would be interested in:

http://www2.bitstream.net/~mnyman/geeklove.htm
http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0796July/Verbal/dunn.html
http://www.bunnyhop.com/BH8/Dunn/katherine.html