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Cori Crooks

Goodreads Author

Born

in Northern California, The United States

Website

http://CoriCrooks.com

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels

Influences

Life, Songwriters & songwriting, Richard Brautigan, A.A. Milne, Charle ...more

Member Since

November 2008

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Cori Crooks, is a writer, an artist, a playwright, and a musician. Beginning in 2004, she documented her quest for the truth about her paternity and then aired the DNA test results online to the readers of her art/life blog, “A Gag Reflex”. Her offbeat prose quickly earned her local press, respect amongst top bloggers and published writers, as well as a cult following of fans eager for more of her quirky and fresh story telling. Her first book, "Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake", Seal Press, was released December 2008.

Cori attributes her talents to having lived a full life at an early age. Once a homeless teen in the suburbs of Oakland, CA, she went on to write and direct plays at her community college theatre, record music and tour with i Cori Crooks, is a writer, an artist, a playwright, and a musician. Beginning in 2004, she documented her quest for the truth about her paternity and then aired the DNA test results online to the readers of her art/life blog, “A Gag Reflex”. Her offbeat prose quickly earned her local press, respect amongst top bloggers and published writers, as well as a cult following of fans eager for more of her quirky and fresh story telling. Her first book, "Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake", Seal Press, was released December 2008.

Cori attributes her talents to having lived a full life at an early age. Once a homeless teen in the suburbs of Oakland, CA, she went on to write and direct plays at her community college theatre, record music and tour with indie rock bands, and study Humanities at San Francisco State University. She now lives with her husband and two children in the greater Sacramento area.

Cori’s writing has appeared independently in projects from California to New York, and internationally online. Her artwork has shown at galleries in New York and California, and is currently available through the Catalina Island Museum, the American Museum of Ceramic Art, and her online store.

Reviews for "Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake":

“Sweet Charlotte’s Seventh Mistake is a visual feast of all the same documents and photos that lived on Crooks’ astonishing blog, A Gag Reflex. It is funny and heartbreaking, and it makes for an absorbing and compelling read.”
~ Cheryl Holliday, Emmy winning writer/producer of King of the Hill

“This is compassionate voyeurism at its best. As Crooks unflinchingly exposes every one of her dark secrets for all to share, she searches not only for who her family is, but who she is as well. A truly inspiring and fresh approach to a tough coming of age story and a must read for anyone, regardless of age.”
~Patrick O’Neil, Full Blue Moon Dementia

"More than just an autobiography, documentary or mystery, this work is a masterful literary checkmate."
~Indie, The Synchronicity of Indeterminacy

"“In Sweet Charlotte’s Seventh Mistake, Cori Crooks takes us on an intensely visual voyage of discovery. Adapted from her poignant, witty, offbeat blog – in which artwork, letters and newspaper notices were used to stunning effect – Crook’s search for identity (her own, her father’s) has now been transposed into a beautiful scrapbook format. It’s an innovative way to tell a highly personal, moving story and makes for compulsive reading.”
~Catherine Sanderson, ‘petite anglaise’

"Sweet Charlotte’s Seventh Mistake, recently published by Seal Press, is far more than just a blog transplanted to the page; it’s a chronicle of family dysfunction that is to memoir what sculpture is to Play-Doh."
~ Kel Munger, Sacramento News and Review

"If you like Cori Crooks' blog "A Gag Reflex," which documented her search to find the father she never knew, you'll love her new book. Crooks combines beautiful prose with photos, artwork and newspaper clippings to create a hilarious but heartbreaking chronicle of her search."
~Kentucky Courier-journal ...more

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Reading! 8/19 @ 25C in Oakland, CA

Come on down to The 25th Street Collective in Oakland , CA for a reading of my short, "The Worrier's Fable".

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Sunday, August 19th
Art Beat @ The 25th Street Collective
477 25th Street, Oakland, Ca 94612
(Between Broadway and Telegraph)
Taking Bart? 19th Street stop in Oakland.
Walk up Broadway toward 25th. (Closer than you think!)
3-8pm FREE Read more of this blog post »

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