 Solanas moved to New York City in the mid @-@ 1960s , working as a writer . She met pop artist Andy Warhol and asked him to produce her play , Up Your Ass . She gave him her script , which she later accused him of losing and / or stealing , followed by Warhol expressing additional indifference to her play . After Solanas demanded financial compensation for the lost script , Warhol hired her to perform in his film , I , a Man , paying her $ 25 . In 1967 , Solanas began self @-@ publishing the SCUM Manifesto . Olympia Press owner Maurice Girodias offered to publish Solanas 's future writings , and she understood the contract to mean that Girodias would own her writing . Convinced that Girodias and Warhol were conspiring to steal her work , Solanas purchased a gun in the spring of 1968 . 
