|
Carol Sklenicka (born 1948 in San Luis Obispo, California) is an American biographer and essayist best known as the author of ''Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life'', the first comprehensive biography of short story writer Raymond Carver.〔''Los Angeles Daily News'' Dec 27, 2009〕〔King, Stephen. "Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories," The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2009〕〔Henry, DeWitt, ''Boston Globe'', Dec, 20, 2009〕 Sklenicka was raised in Santa Maria, California, attended college California State Polytechnic College in San Luis Obispo and received a Ph. D. in English and American literature from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied with Naomi Lebowitz, Stanley Elkin, and Howard Nemerov, in 1986. While raising her two children, Katherine Ryan and Robert Ryan, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin she taught literature and creative writing at Marquette University and at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. She now devotes herself to writing and rural living near the Russian River in northern California with poet and novelist R. M. Ryan, author of ''Vaudeville in the Dark'' and ''There's a Man with a Gun Over There'' and other books.〔Jensen, Geeta Sharma. "Carver fan Sklenicka satisfied her need for biography" ''Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel'', Nov. 28. 2009.〕 The publication of her biography of Carver, which was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2009 by ''The New York Times Magazine'' and a notable book by the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', the ''Washington Post'', and the ''Seattle Times'', followed more than a decade of interviews with Carver's friends, family and writing colleagues. However, Carver's widow, poet Tess Gallagher, refused to be interviewed by Sklenicka.〔 Some critics, most notably novelist Stephen King, writing in ''The New York Times Book Review'', found that Sklenicka displayed "something like awe for Carver the writer" and was "almost nonjudgmental when it comes to Carver the nasty drunk and ungrateful (not to mention sometimes dangerous) husband,"〔 whereas Jason M. Appel, in ''Ploughshares'', said "Carver, as presented by Sklenicka, is a man of profound moral shortcomings." ''Time'' found the book "judicious, thorough and sometimes harrowing".〔Lacayo, Richard. ("Man of Constant Sorrow" ), ''Time'' Nov. 23, 2009〕 Among the journals to which Sklenicka has contributed are ''Confrontation'', ''South Atlantic Quarterly'', ''Iowa Woman'', and ''Sou'wester''. She is an active member of Biographers International Organization. Sklenicka is currently writing a biography of short-story writer and novelist Alice Adams.〔Deahl, Rachel. ("From Carver to Adams" ) ''Publishers Weekly'' June 21, 2010〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carol Sklenicka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|