Lila Karp (1933 – September 15, 2008) was an American feminist author, teacher, activist, and psychotherapist.
She is best known for her 1969 novel The Queen Is in the Garbage,[1] and is profiled in the book Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975.
[1] Karp spent a decade living in London, where she wrote The Queen Is in the Garbage, before moving to New York City in the late 1960s.
This group included such notables as Kate Millett, Flo Kennedy, Ti-Grace Atkinson, and Margo Jefferson.
She was appointed the co-director of The Institute for the Study of Women and Men at the University of Southern California in 1991.