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Carolyn See

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January 13, 1934 in Pasadena, California, The United States

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female

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Arts & Photography

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Carolyn See is the author of nine books, including the memoir, Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America, an advice book on writing, Making a Literary Life, and the novels There Will Never Be Another You and The Handyman.

She is the Friday-morning reviewer for The Washington Post, and she has been on the boards of the National Book Critics Circle and PENWest International. She has won both the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Getty Center fellowship. She lives in Pacific Palisades, California.

See has also written books under the pen name Monica Highland, a name she shared with two others, her daughter Lisa See and her longtime companion, John Espey, who died in 2000.

See is known for writing novels set in Los Angeles and has co-edited books...more

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Books by Carolyn See

Average rating: 3.75 · 1,333 ratings · 242 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Making a Literary Life 3.97 avg rating — 414 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Handyman: A Novel 3.63 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	My rating:
	There Will Never Be Another You: A Novel 2.90 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Golden Days 3.60 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America by Carolyn See, University of California Press 3.80 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Making History 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Rhine Maidens 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mothers, Daughters 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1977 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Rest Is Done with Mirrors 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1990	My rating:
	The Handyman: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”
― Carolyn See

tags: herstory , women , writing

170 people liked it

“It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so. It feels like something criminal. It feels like unspeakably wild sex. So, think: When you feel the overpowering need to go out and find some unspeakably wild sex, do you rush to tell your mom about it?”
― Carolyn See

tags: humor , writing

3 people liked it

“Everyone in the world should read this book... We should read it to learn about the world and what it means to be human. ”
― Carolyn See

1 person liked it

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