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Caroline Knapp was born on November 8, 1959 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. She was the daughter of noted psychiatrist Peter H. Knapp, who did groundbreaking research into psychosomatic medicine. Her mother was an artist. Knapp grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Caroline graduated from Brown University with a degree (magna cum laude).
From 1988 until 1995 Caroline was a columnist and editor 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". Her second book was "Drinking with Pack of Two", also a best-seller. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in April 2002. She died in Cambridge of lung cancer on June 3, 2002. Two books of hers were published after her death: "Appetites: Why Women Want" and "The Merry Recluse".
In May 2002, Caroline married her longtime friend and companion, photographer Mark Morelli.
