Background
Carol Sklenicka was born on December 11, 1948 in San Luis Obispo, California, United States. She is a daughter of Robert Jame and Dorothy Sklenicka. She grew up in Santa Maria, California, United States.
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California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, California, United States
In 1971 Carol Sklenicka received a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State Polytechnic University.
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Washington University in St. Louis, Greater St. Louis, Missouri, United States
In 1978 Carol Sklenicka obtained a Master of Arts degree from Washington University, St. Louis and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English in 1986.
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Washington University in St. Louis, Greater St. Louis, Missouri, United States
In 1978 Carol Sklenicka obtained a Master of Arts degree from Washington University, St. Louis and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English in 1986.
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California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, California, United States
In 1971 Carol Sklenicka received a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State Polytechnic University.
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D. H. Lawrence and the Child
(In the first major work that considers the importance of ...)
In the first major work that considers the importance of childhood representations in shaping the modern writer, Sklenicka unearths the "richness of possibility" D. H. Lawrence found in his depiction of children and the complexities of family life. In the first major work that considers the importance of childhood representations in shaping the modern writer, Sklenicka unearths the "richness of possibility" D. H. Lawrence found in his depiction of children and the complexities of family life.
https://www.amazon.com/D-Lawrence-Child-Carol-Sklenicka/dp/0826207782/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=D.+H.+Lawrence+and+the+Child&qid=1576136601&s=books&sr=1-3
1991
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life
(The first biography of america’s best-known short story w...)
The first biography of america’s best-known short story writer of the late twentieth century. The London Times called Raymond Carver "the American Chekhov." The beloved, mischievous, but more modest short-story writer and poet thought of himself as "a lucky man" whose renunciation of alcohol allowed him to live "ten years longer than I or anyone expected." In that last decade, Carver became the leading figure in a resurgence of the short story. Readers embraced his precise, sad, often funny and poignant tales of ordinary people and their troubles: poverty, drunkenness, embittered marriages, difficulties brought on by neglect rather than intent. Since Carver died in 1988 at age fifty, his legacy has been mythologized by admirers and tainted by controversy over a zealous editor’s shaping of his first two story collections. Carol Sklenicka penetrates the myths and controversies. Her decade-long search of archives across the United States and her extensive interviews with Carver’s relatives, friends, and colleagues have enabled her to write the definitive story of the iconic literary figure. Laced with the voices of people who knew Carver intimately, her biography offers a fresh appreciation of his work and an unbiased, vivid portrait of the writer.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002WVGEEG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1
2009
Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer
(Born in 1926, Alice Adams grew up in Chapel Hill, North C...)
Born in 1926, Alice Adams grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and came of age during World War II. After college at Radcliffe and a year in Paris, she moved to San Francisco. Always a rebel in good-girl’s clothing, Adams used her education, sexual and emotional curiosity, and uncompromising artistic ambition to break the strictures that bound women in midcentury America. Divorced with a child to raise, she worked at secretarial jobs for two decades before she could earn a living as a writer. One of only four winners of the O. Henry Special Award for Continuing Achievement, Adams wove her life into her fiction and used her writing to understand the changing tides of the twentieth century. Her work portrays vibrant characters both young and old who live on the edge of their emotions, absorbed by love affairs yet always determined to be independent and to fulfill their personal destinies.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P5HVBKJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
2019
Carol Sklenicka
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In 1971 Carol Sklenicka received a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State Polytechnic University. In 1978 she obtained a Master of Arts degree from Washington University, St. Louis and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English in 1986.
Career
Carol Sklenicka taught literature and creative writing at Marquette University and at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. In 1991 she published D. H. Lawrence and the Child. It focuses on his little-discussed child characters. The biography "Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life" by Carol Sklenicka, released in 2009, took more than 10 years to research. To get to know the master of the modern American short story, who died at age 50 in 1988, Sklenicka talked with his first wife, Maryann Burk Carver (who has written her own memoir, "What It Used to Be Like: A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver") and his friends and colleagues. On December 3, 2019 her book Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer about the short-story writer and novelist Alice Adams, was published.
Her stories, essays, and reviews published in Sou'wester, Confrontation, South Atlantic Quarterly, Iowa Woman, Military Lifestyle, Willow Springs, Clackamas Literary Review, Village Voice, America, Metro, Milwaukee, and Transactions.
Achievements
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Carol Sklenicka is best known as the author of Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life, which was named of one of the 10 Best Books of 2009 by The New York Times Book Review, and Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer. Her works are widely praised by reviewers. Her work Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life was also translated into several languages.
Works
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D. H. Lawrence and the Child
(In the first major work that considers the importance of ...)
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Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer
(Born in 1926, Alice Adams grew up in Chapel Hill, North C...)
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Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life
(The first biography of america’s best-known short story w...)
2009
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D. H. Lawrence and the Child
Religion
Carol Sklenicka describes herself as "Buddhist Episcopalian."
Membership
Carol Sklenicka is a member of the Authors' Guild, D. H. Lawrence Society of North America. She is also an active member of Biographers International Organization.
Interests
Connections
On June 21, 1979 Carol Sklenicka married R. M. Ryan, a writer. They have two children: Katherine Snoda, Robert Lewellin.
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American
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1971
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1978
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1986
Washington University in St. Louis , Doctor of Philosophy Greater St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Career
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1991 - present