Jonathan Carroll




This article is about the writer. For the Illinois state legislator, see Jonathan Carroll (politician).
























Jonathan Carroll

Carroll at a reading in Stacey's Bookstore, San Francisco, in 2008
Carroll at a reading in Stacey's Bookstore,
San Francisco, in 2008

Born Jonathan Samuel Carroll
(1949-01-26) January 26, 1949 (age 70)
New York City, US
Occupation Novelist, writer
Nationality American
Genre
Magic realism, slipstream, contemporary fantasy
Website
www.jonathancarroll.com



JCarroll in Poland (2012)


Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy. He has lived in Austria since the 1970s.




Contents






  • 1 Life and work


  • 2 Awards


  • 3 Bibliography


    • 3.1 Novels


    • 3.2 Novellas and short novels


    • 3.3 Short story collections


    • 3.4 Nonfiction




  • 4 Further reading


  • 5 See also


  • 6 References


  • 7 Interviews


  • 8 External links





Life and work


Carroll was born in New York City to Sidney Carroll, a film writer whose credits included The Hustler, and June Carroll (née Sillman), an actress and lyricist who appeared in numerous Broadway shows and two films. He is the half brother of composer Steve Reich and nephew of Broadway producer Leonard Sillman. His parents were Jewish, but Carroll was raised in the Christian Science religion.[1] A self-described "troubled teenager," he finished primary education at the Loomis School in Connecticut and graduated with honors from Rutgers University in 1971, marrying artist Beverly Schreiner in the same year. He relocated to Vienna, Austria a few years later and began teaching literature at the American International School, and has made his home in Austria ever since.


His first novel, The Land of Laughs (1980), is indicative of his general style and subject matter. Told through realistic first person narration, the novel concerns a young schoolteacher, Thomas Abbey, researching the life of a favorite children's book author of his youth, which involves meeting the author's daughter in her and her late father's seemingly idyllic (fictitious) home town of Galen, Missouri. Everything seems fine until a dog in Galen begins talking to Abbey. The line gradually blurs between the fantasy world created by Abbey's research subject and the life of the people in Galen, while the reader begins to wonder just how much trust can be placed in this narrator. Subsequent novels would expand on these themes, but often contain unreliable narrators in a world where magic is viewed as natural. (One commentator claimed in The Times that "if he were a Latin American writer with a three-part name, his books would be described as magical-realist".)[2]


His son, Ryder Carroll, is the inventor of the Bullet Journal.



Awards


Carroll's short story, "Friend's Best Man", won the World Fantasy Award.[3] His novel, Outside the Dog Museum won the British Fantasy Award[4] and his collection of short stories won the Bram Stoker Award. The short story "Uh-Oh City" won the French Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire.[5] His short story "Home on the Rain" was chosen as one of the best stories of the year by the Pushcart Prize committee. Carroll has been a runner-up for other World Fantasy Awards, the Hugo, and British Fantasy Awards.



Bibliography



Novels




  • The Land of Laughs (1980)


  • Voice of Our Shadow (1983)

  • The Answered Prayers Sextet


    • Bones of the Moon (1987) (slightly revised US edition, 1988)


    • Sleeping in Flame (1988) – World Fantasy Award nominee, 1989[6]


    • A Child Across the Sky (1989, Washington Post Book of the Year) – BSFA nominee, 1989;[6] WFA and Clarke nominee, 1990[7]


    • Outside the Dog Museum (1991) – British Fantasy Award winner, WFA nominee, 1992[4]


    • After Silence (1992)


    • From the Teeth of Angels (1993), – New York Times Book Review Notable Book; WFA nominee, 1995[8]




  • The Crane's View Trilogy


    • Kissing the Beehive (1997) – British Fantasy Award nominee, 1999[9]


    • The Marriage of Sticks (2000) – British Fantasy Award nominee, 2000[10]


    • The Wooden Sea (2001, New York Times Book Review Notable Book) – Locus and World Fantasy Awards nominee, 2002[11]




  • White Apples (2002) – Locus and World Fantasy Awards nominee, 2003[12]


  • Glass Soup (2005)


  • Oko Dnia (Eye of the Day) (2006, Polish language edition)


  • The Ghost in Love (2008)


  • Bathing the Lion (2014)



Novellas and short novels




  • Black Cocktail (1990)


  • The Heidelberg Cylinder (2000) [1000 copy limited edition, signed by Jonathan Carroll and cover artist Dave McKean. A few remaining copies left over from the print run were sold without signatures.]


  • Teaching the Dog to Read (2015)



Short story collections




  • Die Panische Hand (1989) (German language edition)


  • The Panic Hand (1995) [expansion of the 1989 German language edition; the 1996 US edition adds the novella Black Cocktail]


  • The Woman Who Married A Cloud: Collected Stories (2012)



Nonfiction



  • The Crow's Dinner (2017)


Further reading


  • Edna Stumpf. "Jonathan Carroll: Galen to Vienna to the World". In Schweitzer, Darrell (ed). Discovering Modern Horror Fiction. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1985, pp. 129–34.




See also




References





  1. ^ http://www.jonathancarroll.com/interviews/edge.html


  2. ^ Unnamed reviewer for The Times, quoted on blurb page of the Futura paperback edition of Outside the Dog Museum, 1991.


  3. ^ World Fantasy Convention. "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on December 1, 2010. Retrieved 2011-02-04..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  4. ^ ab "1992 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-05-17.


  5. ^ "Nouvelles étrangères". Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. Archived from the original on June 17, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2010.


  6. ^ ab "1989 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.


  7. ^ "1990 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.


  8. ^ "1995 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.


  9. ^ "1999 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.


  10. ^ "2000 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.


  11. ^ "2002 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.


  12. ^ "2003 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-06-29.




Interviews



  • Interview with Jonathan Carroll on wotmania.com

  • A conversation with Jonathan Carroll on SF Site

  • The Complete Rain Taxi Interview with Jonathan Carroll

  • Jonathan Carroll interview on the Critique Magazine website

  • One on One interview with Jonathan Carroll by Barnes and Noble Studio







External links







  • Official Jonathan Carroll Website and daily blog


  • Glass Soup – the official website for his novel, art design by Ryder Carroll--- www.rydercarroll.com


  • Jonathan Carroll at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database


  • Jonathan Carroll at Bold Type Author essay titled "New Year's Resolutions"; Book excerpt from "Kissing the Beehive."










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