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Carol Sklenicka

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Born

San Luis Obispo, California, The United States

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

Influences

Patricia Bosworth, Judith Thurman, Blake Bailey

Member Since

October 2009

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Carol Sklenicka grew up in central California in the 1960s. She attended college in San Luis Obispo, California, and graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied with Stanley Elkin, Naomi Lebowitz, and Howard Nemerov. Her stories, essays, and reviews are widely published. She spent more than ten years researching and writing the first full-length biography of Raymond Carver.

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Average rating: 4.23 · 724 ratings · 109 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life 4.24 avg rating — 691 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	D. H. Lawrence and the Child (Volume 1) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	D. H. LAWRENCE AND THE CHILD. by Carol Sklenicka (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Carol Sklenicka and 112 other people liked Paul Bryant's review of Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life: "A DIFFICULT BEGINNING Married at 19, father at 20, and again at 21. Became possessed with the mad obsessive desire to become a “writer” which his wife amazingly agreed with – she thought he was going to be a great writer too (and she was right). Becau" Read more of this review »
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Carol Sklenicka liked Beth Phillips's review of Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life: "There are biographical subjects who beg for a particular voice to represent them. In relation to short story writer and poet Raymond Carver, Carol Sklenicka has provided that voice. I have no doubt that Carver, post mortem, tapped her on the shoulder" Read more of this review »
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Carol Sklenicka liked Dan Domench's review of Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life: "Carol interviewed me for this book. She was friendly, understanding, and compassionate. I still carry grief about Ray, about his early death, and about other incidents from our friendship. I was braced for the release of this book. When it came out, " Read more of this review »
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Carol Sklenicka liked Andrew Sydlik's review of Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life: "Don’t have time for an in-depth review, but I enjoyed this biography of Carver. I would recommend, however, tracking down Stephen King’s review of the book in the New York Times Book Review, November 2009, for an interesting supplement. King remarks " Read more of this review »
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“Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.”
― Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch

tags: feminism, independence

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