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E. Jean Carroll (born December 12, 1943) is an American journalist and advice columnist. Her “Ask E. Jean” column has appeared in ''Elle'' magazine since 1993, and was ranked one of the five best magazine columns (along with Anthony Lane of ''The New Yorker'' and Lewis Lapham of ''Harper's Magazine'' ) by the ''Chicago Tribune'' in 2003.〔''Chicago Tribune'', June 12, 2003, “The 50 Best Magazines” http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/results.html?st=advanced&QryTxt=%22e.+jean+carroll%22&type=current&sortby=REVERSE_CHRON&datetype=0&frommonth=01&fromday=01&fromyear=1985&tomonth=04&today=26&toyear=2007&By=&Title=&Sect=ALL〕 Born Elizabeth Jean Carroll in Detroit, Michigan, and nicknamed "Betty Jean" from an early age, Carroll's opinions on sex, her impatient, boisterous counsel that women should “never never” wrap their lives around men, and her compassion for letter-writers experiencing life’s hard knocks, make her column unique in women’s magazines.〔Joan Kelly Bernard, ''Newsday'', March 1994, pg B.13 “Get a Grip and Take Some Sassy but Sane Advice from Elle’s E. Jean”〕〔''The New York Times'', Sunday March 30, 1997, front page of the Styles section〕 Amy Gross, former editor-in-chief of ''Elle'' and currently the editor-in-chief ''O, The Oprah Magazine'', recalls the “Ask E. Jean” debut. “It was as though we had put her on a bucking bronco and her answers were the cheers and whoops and hollers of a fearless woman having a good ol time.”〔Katherine Rosman, “Method to Her Madness,” page 99, ''Brill’s Content'', November 1999.〕 NBC’s cable channel, ''America's Talking'', produced the ''Ask E. Jean'' television show based on the column from 1994-1996 (when the channel became MSNBC).〔''USA Today'', Friday, December 15, 1995, front page〕 ''Entertainment Weekly'' called Carroll “()he most entertaining cable talk show host you will never see.” 〔''Entertainment Weekly'', December 30, 1994/Jan 6, 1995/September 30, 1994〕 Jeff Jarvis in his review in TV Guide said watching E. Jean and her “robotic hyperactivity drove () batty.” He went on: “However then I listened to her, and couldn’t help liking her. E. Jean gives good advice.” 〔''TV Guide'', March, 1995〕 Carroll was nominated for an Emmy for her writing for ''Saturday Night Live'', (1985) and a Cable Ace Award for the ''Ask E. Jean'' show (1995). The AskEJean.com website, based on the ''Elle'' column, is an on-going experiment in the gripping ways people give and get advice. Users can type in questions and receive instant video answers on topics such as career, beauty, sex, men, diet, "sticky situations," and friends. Or, users can join the Advice Vixens (a section where “YOU become the advice columnist”). "Top Campus Sex Columnists" features the best college advice columnists from across America.〔(Tormented? Driven Witless? Whipsawed by Confusion? - Ask E. Jean )〕 == Journalism and Books == In 2002 Carroll's “The Cheerleaders” which appeared in ''Spin'', was selected as one of the year's “Best True Crime Reporting” pieces. It appeared in ''Best American Crime Writing'' edited by Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook, Nicholas Pileggi (Pantheon Books, 2002).〔http://www.avclub.com/content/node/20721 Noel Murray, Book Review on A.V. Club.〕 Carroll has been a contributing editor to ''Esquire'', ''Outside'' and ''Playboy'' magazines. Her beat is “the heart of the heart of the country”. For an April 1992 issue of ''Esquire'', she chronicled the lives of basketball groupies in a story called “Love in the Time of Magic.” In June 1994, she went to Indiana and investigated why four white farm kids were thrown out of school for dressing like black artists in “The Return of the White Negro”. In “The Loves of My Life”, (June 1995), she tracked down her old boyfriends and moved in with the fellows and their wives.〔''Esquire'', April 1992, June 1994, June 1995.〕 Bill Tonelli, her ''Esquire'' and ''Rolling Stone'' editor has said: “All of E. Jean’s stories are pretty much the same thing. Which is: ‘What is this person like when he or she is in a room with E. Jean?’ She’s institutionally incapable of being uninteresting.”〔Katherine Rosman, “Method to Her Madness,” page 98, Brill’s Content, November 1999.〕 For ''Playboy'' (February 1988) at the height of the “Sensitive Man” era, E. Jean told her editors that "modern women run around complaining that they want a primitive man, so I thought it would be fun to come to New Guinea and find a real one.”〔''Playboy'', Page 88, February 1988〕 Carroll hiked into the Star Mountains, with an Atbalmin tracker who stood 4’2” and a Telefomin warrior. She became the first white woman to walk from Telefomin to Munbil in the former West Irian Jaya, and came close to perishing.〔 For ''Outside'', Carroll wrote about (among other things) taking Fran Lebowitz camping and going down the Colorado with a group of “Women Who Run With No Clothes On.” Several of E. Jean’s pieces for ''Outside'' have been included in various Non-Fiction collections such ''The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years'' (Vintage Books, 1998), ''Out of the Noosphere: Adventure, Sports, Travel, and the Environment'' (Fireside, 1998) and ''Sand in My Bra: Funny Women Write from the Road'' (Traveler’s Tales, 2003). E. Jean Carroll authored four books: *''Female Difficulties: Sorority Sisters, Rodeo Queens, Frigid Women, Smut Stars, and Other Modern Girls'' (Bantam Books, 1985) *''A Dog in Heat Is a Hot Dog and Other Rules to Live By'' (a collection of her Ask E. Jean columns, Pocket Books, 1996) *''Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson'' (Dutton, 1993) *''Mr. Right, Right Now'' (HarperCollins, 2004) 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「E. Jean Carroll」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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