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Carol Sklenicka

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http://www.goodreads.com/carolsklenicka

born

San Luis Obispo, California, The United States

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female

genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

influences

Patricia Bosworth, Judith Thurman, Blake Bailey

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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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Books by Carol Sklenicka

Average rating: 4.12 · 218 ratings · 56 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life 4.12 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	D. H. Lawrence and the Child 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1991	My rating:

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Carol Sklenicka on tour for the book "Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life"
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Carol Sklenicka on tour for the book "Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life"

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Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Century Skeptic

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Carol Sklenicka gave to: The Golden Rules by R.M. Ryan	My rating:
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Carol Sklenicka added: The Golden Rules by R. M. Ryan	My rating:
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Carol Sklenicka gave to: Vaudeville in the Dark by R. Ryan	My rating:
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Carol Sklenicka gave to: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama	My rating:
May 11, 2010 11:49am
Carol Sklenicka gave to: Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth Century Skeptic by Michael Scammell	My rating:
May 11, 2010 11:48am
Carol Sklenicka liked Cassie's review of The Book of Illusions: " I LOVED this book! This is a story within a story within a story. It's no wonder why it's called "The Book of Illusions." What I like most out of it is that you can choose what is real and what is fantasy. Even if all the stories told within these... " Read more of this review »
May 11, 2010 11:47am · see review
Carol Sklenicka liked Jill's review of The Book of Illusions: " By reading this book I have become a die-hard Auster fan. The man is amazing. So clever, so imaginitive, so poetic and almost profound. This book rambles, and in doing so touches on so many intertwined narratives that one almost gives up on what w... " Read more of this review »
May 11, 2010 11:47am · see review
Carol Sklenicka liked Alika Yarnell's review of The Book of Illusions: " A surprising book that is riveting through to the final words. I say "surprising" because at first it's not clear as to what kind of book this is going to be. As with some of Auster's other work, the novel is told through a first-person narrator w... " Read more of this review »
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Carol Sklenicka gave to: The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster	My rating:
May 11, 2010 11:42am