Caroline Knapp

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born

November 08, 1959 in The United States

died

June 03, 2002

gender

female

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Nonfiction

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Caroline Knapp was an American writer and columnist whose candid best-selling memoir Drinking: A Love Story recounted her 20-year battle with alcoholism.

From 1988-95, she was a columnist for the Boston Phoenix, where her column "Out There" often featured the fictional "Alice K." In 1994, those columns were collected in her first book, Alice K's Guide to Life: One Woman's Quest for Survival, Sanity, and the Perfect New Shoes.

Knapp won wide acclaim for Drinking: A Love Story (1996), which described her life as a "high-functioning alcoholic" and remained on the New York Times best-seller list for several weeks. She followed Drinking with Pack of Two, also a best-seller, which recounted her relationship with her dog Lucille and humans' relation...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 5,854 ratings · 720 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Drinking: A Love Story 3.91 avg rating — 3,651 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Appetites: Why Women Want 4.02 avg rating — 937 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs 3.97 avg rating — 726 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays 3.94 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Alice K's Guide to Life: One Woman's Quest for Survival, Sanity, and the Perfect NewShoes 3.57 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Zorro: The Dailies by Caroline Knapp, Thomas Yeates 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Geschichte Einer Gefährlichen Liebe 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Shimon, Leah And Benjamin 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Dog is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship by Bark Editors, Claudia Kawczynska (Editor), Alice Walker (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:

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“The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.”
― Caroline Knapp

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“The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.”
― Caroline Knapp, Appetites: Why Women Want

23 people liked it

“I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.”
― Caroline Knapp, Appetites: Why Women Want

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