Carolyn See is the author of five novels, including The Handyman and Golden Days. She is a book reviewer for The Washington Post and is on the board of PEN Center USA West. She has a Ph.D. in American literature from UCLA, where she is an adjunct professor of English. Her awards include the prestigious Robert Kirsch Body of Work Award (1993) and a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction. She lives in California.
Carolyn See is the author of five novels, including The Handyman and Golden Days. She is also the author of Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America. She is a book reviewer for The Washington Post and is on the board of PEN Center USA West. She has a Ph.D. in American literature from UCLA, where she is an adjunct professor of English. Her awards include the prestigious Robert Kirsch Body of Work Award (1993) and a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction. She lives in California.
Novels
The Rest is Done with Mirrors (1970)
Mothers, Daughters (1977)
Rhine Maidens (1981)
Golden Days (1987)
Making History (1991)
The Handyman (1999)
There Will Never Be Another You (2006)
Mothers, Daughters (1977)
Rhine Maidens (1981)
Golden Days (1987)
Making History (1991)
The Handyman (1999)
There Will Never Be Another You (2006)
Non fiction
Blue Money (1974)
Two Schools of Thought (1991) (with John Espey)
Dreaming (1995)
Making A Literary Life (2002)
Two Schools of Thought (1991) (with John Espey)
Dreaming (1995)
Making A Literary Life (2002)
Carolyn See recommends
The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket (1989)
John Weir
"There's no moving away from this wrenching, beautifully told story."
The Dylanist (1991)
Brian Morton
"Wonderful....All I can say is: This is one to buy, to read. It echoes in the brain, as your own life unfolds."
The Ruins of California (2006)
Martha Sherrill
"A unique work of art... it gives me hope for the whole human race."
Literacy and Longing in L.A. (2006)
Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
"I'm absolutely crazy about Literacy and Longing in L.A., which deftly serves up all the best elements of so-called 'chick lit,' lovingly larded with light-hearted, quick-witted, absolutely astonishing learning!"
Ms. Hempel Chronicles (2008)
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
"When I opened this charming novel, I fell in love with it..."
The Wilderness (2009)
Samantha Harvey
"Cloder to Virginia Woolf's meditative novels than anything else I can think of."
Getting in (2010)
Karen Stabiner
"Getting In takes an edgy, knowing look inside the lives and minds of love-crazed parents--galvanized equally by desperation and devotion--as they try with all their might to thrust their cherished children into the universities of their dreams."
Anthropology of an American Girl (2010)
Hilary Thayer Hamann
"As vast and ambitous as the country itself."
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