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Carol Emshwiller
Carol Emshwiller, 1998
Carol Emshwiller, 1998
BornCarol Fries
(1921-04-12)April 12, 1921
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
DiedFebruary 2, 2019(2019-02-02) (aged 97)
Durham, North Carolina, U.S.
OccupationWriter
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Genrescience fiction, magical realism
Teaching at Clarion West, 1998.

Carol Emshwiller (April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019) was an American writer of avant-garde short stories and science fiction who won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction."[1] Among her novels are Carmen Dog and The Mount. She also wrote two cowboy novels, Ledoyt and Leaping Man Hill. Her last novel, The Secret City, was published in April 2007.

She was married to artist and experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller and "regularly served as his model for paintings of beautiful women."[2] The couple had three children: Eve Emshwiller, a botanist and ethnobotanist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Susan Emswhiller, author and co-screenwriter of the movie Pollock; and Peter Emshwiller, an actor, artist, screenwriter, and novelist.

Biography[edit]

Emshwiller was born Agnes Carolyn Fries in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She spent part of her childhood in France and Germany for father's academic sabbaticals. After earning a B.A. in music from the University of Michigan in 1945, she joined the Red Cross to aid U.S. troops in postwar Italy. Returning to Ann Arbor, she attended art school and married Ed Emshwiller, a fellow art student, in 1949. The couple studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, toured Europe on a motorcycle, and eventually settled in Levittown, New York.[3]

In later years, she lived in New York City and taught at New York University.[4] She spent summers in Owens Valley, California, a setting she often used in her stories.[citation needed]

She died on February 2, 2019, in Durham, North Carolina, where she was living with her daughter, Susan.[5]

Career[edit]

Emshwiller began publishing science fiction in the mid-1950s.[6] Much of her early fiction appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and in Damon Knight’s Orbit anthologies.[7] Her experimental stories were associated with the New Wave of science fiction.

Emshwiller’s stories appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Ninth Letter, Century, Scifiction, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, TriQuarterly, Transatlantic Review, McSweeney’s, Orbit, Epoch, The Voice Literary Supplement, Omni, and many other anthologies and magazines.[8]

Emshwiller was a MacDowell Colony Fellow and was awarded an NEA grant, a New York State Creative Artists Public Service grant, a New York State Foundation for the Arts grant, and the ACCENT/ASCENT fiction prize.[9]

In 2005, she was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement for her collection The Start of the End of It All.[10] Her short story "Creature" won the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and "I Live With You" won the 2005 Nebula Award in the same category.

In 2009, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.[11]

Bibliography[edit]

Novels[edit]

Short fiction[edit]

Collections
Stories (Partial list)
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
"Sex and/or Mr. Morrison" 1967 Dangerous Visions
  • Joy In Our Cause (1974)
  • Women of Wonder (1975)
  • The Start of the End of It All (1990)
  • Crossing the Border (1998)
  • Passing for Human (2009)
  • Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1 (2011)
[12]
"Foster Mother" 2001 "Foster mother". F&SF. 100 (2): 130–137. Feb 2001.
"Grandma" 2002 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (March 2002)
  • Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories (Small Beer Press, 2002)
  • Year's Best SF 8 (2003)
  • Jack Dann, ed. Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (Roc, 2005)
"Whoever" 2008 "Whoever". F&SF. 115 (4&5). October–November 2008.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Le Guin, Ursula K. "Ledoyt: A Novel by Carol Emshwiller". Strange Horizons. Strange Horizons. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  • ^ "Emshwiller, Ed". Updated January 9, 2023. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. 4th ed. Entry by co-editor John Clute. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
  • ^ "Carol Emshwiller—The Future Is Female!". The Future Is Female. Library of America. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  • ^ "Carol Emshwiller—The Future Is Female!". The Future Is Female. Library of America. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  • ^ "Carol Emshwiller (1921-2019)". Locusmag. February 5, 2019. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
  • ^ "Carol Emshwiller—The Future Is Female!". The Future Is Female. Library of America. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  • ^ Freeman Wexler, Robert. "Carol Emshwiller Interview". Fantastic Metropolis. Fantastic Metropolis. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  • ^ "Carol Emshwiller Bio". Small Beer Press. Small Beer Press. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  • ^ "Carol Emshwiller Bio". Small Beer Press. Small Beer Press. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  • ^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on 2010-12-01. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.
  • ^ Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection Archived 2012-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Illinois University
  • ^ Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories / The Mount / Carol Emshwiller - Featured Review at the SF Site, by Rich Horton; published 2003; retrieved May 23, 2016
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