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Carol Weston (born September 11, 1956) is an American writer. The author of fifteen books, both fiction and non-fiction, she has been the "Dear Carol" advice columnist at Girls' Life since the magazine's first issue in 1994.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.girlslife.com/tag/advice-from-carol-weston.aspx )〕 About Ava and Pip (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2014), the New York Times Book Review said, "This is a book about sisterhood, but also a love letter to language." Also in this series: Ava and Taco Cat (2015) and AVA XOX (2016). ==Biography== At Yale University, Weston majored in French and Spanish comparative literature, graduating ''summa cum laude'' in 1978. Her senior thesis was on "Don Juan and Woman" and she was a member of the Elizabethan Club. She earned her Masters in Spanish from Middlebury College in 1979. Weston also studied at Byram Hills High School in Armonk, New York, spending her senior year in France with School Year Abroad in 1974. Weston's first book, ''Girltalk: All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told You,'' (HarperCollins 1985), came out in four editions and was translated into many languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Vietnamese, Romanian, Bulgarian, Indonesian, Latvian, and Polish. Her first novel, ''The Diary of Melanie Martin,'' (Knopf 2000), was translated into Italian and Czech, and became a four-book series set in Italy, Holland, Spain, and New York. Weston speaks at schools and been a guest on many national television shows. Her online advice for adults and girls can be found at (Howdini ) and on her YouTube Channel (GirltalkWithCarol ). She is a judge of the Young Writers Award at the New York Society Library.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://nysoclib.org/kids/authors/weston_carol.html )〕 Weston's other books include ''For Girls Only'', ''For Teens Only'', ''Private and Personal'', ''How to Honeymoon'', ''Melanie Martin Goes Dutch'', ''With Love From Spain, Melanie Martin" , "Melanie in Manhattan'', and a "momoir" called ''From Here to Maternity''. Of ''For Girls Only,'' USA Today said, "There are so many dumb advice books that it's a pleasure to find one that really works." Weston's first national byline was in Seventeen when she was 19. Her articles and essays have since appeared in many publications including the (New York Times ), (Chicago Tribune ), Brides, Parents, American Way, (Middlebury Magazine ), and (Cigar Aficionado ). She has written quizzes for Seventeen and Cosmopolitan, essays for Glamour and McCall's, picturebook reviews for Redbook, and dozens of published letters to the New York Times.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/opinion/nov-22-memories-of-that-awful-day.html )〕 Weston is the daughter of writers. Her father, William Weston, was a writer, director, and producer of documentaries including ''The Soviet Woman'' and the Peabody-winning television show ''The Last Word.''〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=the&p=157&item=T81:0436 )〕 Her mother, poet and author Marybeth Weston Lobdell, was the garden editor of House & Garden.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/26/style/marybeth-weston-wed-in-greenwich.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/61016-q-a-with-carol-weston.html )〕 Her brothers are Eric Weston and author Mark Weston. Weston and her husband, playwright Rob Ackerman, met in Madrid, Spain, and have lived in Manhattan since 1985. They have two daughters and one cat.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50E17FD385C11728DDDAF0894DF405B8084F1D3 )〕 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 Weston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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