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Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American author primarily known for novels characterized as magic realist, slipstream or modern fantasy. Events 1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Magic realism, or magical realism, is an artistic Genre in which magical elements or illogical scenarios appear in an otherwise realistic or even "normal" Slipstream is a kind of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries between Science fiction / Fantasy or mainstream Literary fiction Contemporary fantasy is a subgenre of Fantasy, also known as modern-day fantasy, or indigenous fantasy. He also writes short stories. The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such

1 Life and work
2 Awards
3 Bibliography
4 Interviews
5 External links
6 See also

Life and work

Carroll was born in New York City to Sidney Carroll, a film writer whose credits included The Hustler, and June (née Sillman), an actress and lyricist who appeared in numerous Broadway shows and two films. The City of New York Sidney Carroll ( May 25, 1913 - November 3, 1988) was a film and Television Screenwriter. The Hustler is a 1961 American Drama film. It tells the story of small-time pool hustler, "Fast Eddie" Felson and his desire to prove He is the half brother of composer Steve Reich and nephew of Broadway producer Leonard Sillman. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3 Leonard Sillman ( May 9, 1908 - January 23, 1982) was an American Broadway producer His parents were Jewish but Carroll was raised in the Christian Science religion. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Christian Science is believed by its supporters to be a system of spiritually scientific truths which are summed up in the two commandments having one God one Mind one Life Truth 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 at the American International School, and has made his home in Austria ever since. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich The American International School Vienna is a for-profit school international school made up structurally of the parents of each student at the school and located in

His first novel, The Land of Laughs (1980), is indicative of his general style and subject matter. The Land of Laughs is fantasy novel by Jonathan Carroll. It was first published by Viking Press in 1980 and is the author's first novel Told through realistic first person narration, the novel concerns a young schoolteacher searching for meaning through researching the life of a favorite children's book author of his youth, which involves meeting the author's daughter. See also First person First-person narrative is a Narrative mode in which a Story is narrated by one character, who explicitly Everything seems fine until the dog begins talking to him, as the line between the fantasy world created by his research subject and the reality of the schoolteacher's life, 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 that Carroll would have been considered a magical realist had he been born in South America and had a Spanish surname. )

Awards

Carroll's short story, "Friend's Best Man", won the World Fantasy Award. The World Fantasy Awards are annual international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of Fantasy. his novel, Outside the Dog Museum won the British Fantasy Award and his collection of short stories won the Bram Stoker Award. The British Fantasy Awards are administered annually by the British Fantasy Society and were first awarded in 1971 The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA for "superior achievement" in horror writing. The novels The Land of Laughs and From The Teeth of Angels won the French "Prix Imaginaire". His short story "Home on the Rain" was chosen as one of the best stories of the year by the Pushcart Prize committee. The Pushcart Prize is a prestigious American Literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry short fiction essays or literary whatnot" published Apart from the above honors, Carroll has gotten on the short-list for other World Fantasy Awards, the Hugo and British Fantasy Awards. The Hugo Awards are given every year for the best Science fiction or Fantasy works and achievements of the previous year

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)
- A Child Across the Sky (1989, Washington Post Book of the Year)
- Outside the Dog Museum (1991)
- After Silence (1992)
- From the Teeth of Angels (1993), New York Times Book Review Notable Book)
The Crane's View Trilogy
- Kissing The Beehive (1997)
- The Marriage of Sticks (2000)
- The Wooden Sea (2001, New York Times Book Review Notable Book)
White Apples (2002)
Glass Soup (2005)
Oko Dnia (Eye Of The Day) (2006, Polish language edition)
The Ghost in Love (2008)

Novellas and short novels

"Black Cocktail" (1990)

Short story collections

Die Panische Hand (1989) (German language edition)
The Panic Hand (1995) [Short story collection; expansion of the 1989 German language edition; the 1996 US edition adds the novella Black Cocktail]
The Heidelberg Cylinder (2000) [novella; 1000 copy limited edition, signed by Jonathan Carroll and cover artist Dave McKean. The Land of Laughs is fantasy novel by Jonathan Carroll. It was first published by Viking Press in 1980 and is the author's first novel Bones of the Moon is a novel by Jonathan Carroll, depicting the real and dream life of a Sleeping in Flame is a Novel by the American writer Jonathan Carroll, originally published in 1988 The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D The New York Times Book Review is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed Polish ( język polski, polszczyzna) is the Official language of Poland. David Tench McKean (born 29 December 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire) is an English Illustrator, Photographer, ]

Interviews

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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