Editing Valerie Solanas (section)

==Assassination Attempt on Warhol's Life==
Solanas later moved to New York City in the mid-1960s, and worked as a writer. It is there that she met the well-known artist Andy Warhol. She commissioned Warhol into producing her play entitled ''Up Your Ass'', and grew incredibly angry at the indifference that Warhol gave for her play. She later demanded financial compensation for her abandoned play, and Warhol gave her a role in his 1967 film ''I, a Man'', and paid her $25 for her trouble. When Warhol gave her a position as a typist at the Factory because of how well-written her play was, she took this to mean he was trying to steal her work. She later described talking to Warhol "like talking to a wall".

In 1967, Maurice Girodias of the Olympia Press, offered to publish Solanas' writings. Valerie, knowing that her writings would be owned by Girodias if she were to sign the contract with him, purchased a gun in the spring of 1968, and later hunted for Girodias, who was away from home at the time. On June 3, 1968, Warhol at the Factory, and she then proceeded to shoot him three times. She also shot Mario Amaya, an art critic, and attempted to shoot Warhol's assistant as well. The shooting pierced through Warhol’s lungs, spleen, stomach, and liver She later turned herself over to the police and was found guilty of attempted murder, assault, and he was briefly declared dead. Warhol spent 2 months in the hospital in which doctors performed multiple surgeries on him and he wore a surgical corset for the rest of his life to hold his organs in place. She was convicted of illegal possession of a gun. She served a three-year prison sentence, and she also spent some time at a pyschiatric hospital.

When she was released from prison after serving those three-years, she continued to promote her radical feminist book, and ultimately died in a hostel of pneumonia in 1988.