Carla Rippey

Mexico (b. United States)

Where in Bolaño: The Savage Detectives, as the model for the painter Catalina O'Hara; the cover of Bolaño's first book, Reinventar el amor
Why read them: Kansas-born visual artist (b. 1950) who was beaten by Pinochet's police in 1973, fled to Mexico City, joined the infrarrealists, drew the cover of Bolaño's first poetry collection, and kept the correspondence in which he described the novel that became 2666 — the friend who outlived the movement and archived it.
Start with: Reinventar el amor, cover art for Bolaño's first book (1976), author's page on Open Library

Carla Rippey: Resguardo y resistencia, retrospective 1976–2016 (2017), author's page on Open Library