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Carol Sklenicka

Carol Sklenicka

Carol Sklenicka

Carol Sklenicka grew up in central California during the 1960s. She attended college in San Luis Obispo and taught high school in Oxnard before going to graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied with Naomi Lebowitz, Stanley Elkin, and Howard Nemerov. Her stories, essays, and reviews have been published in South Atlantic Quarterly, Confrontation, Sou'wester and other periodicals.To research the life of Raymond Carver, she studied archives and visited towns all over the United States and conducted hundreds of interviews with his relatives, friends, and colleagues. She lives with her husband, poet R. M. Ryan, near the Russian River in... Read full bio

Raymond Carver is now available in Trade Paperback
Nov 09, 2010
Raymond Carver will be released on November 09, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Nov 09, 2010
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Feb 22, 2010
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Jan 21, 2010
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Dec 15, 2009
Raymond Carver will be released on November 24, 2009 in Hardcover, eBook
Nov 24, 2009
Raymond Carver is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Nov 24, 2009
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Introduction from Raymond Carver
Oct 04, 2009
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Sep 30, 2009

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DVDFile.com, September 6, 2011
...Sep 6th, 2011 Page 1 of 3 Carol Sklenicka's 2009 biography Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life, in addition to being a stunning read on its own regard, paints the agony and ecstasy of Carver's life...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 8, 2011
...p.m. June 17, Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books, UW-Waukesha. "Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life" (Scribner), by Carol Sklenicka. A former Marquette University and MIAD instructor's carefully researched biography of the talented but troubled fiction...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 4, 2011
...p.m. June 17, Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books, UW-Waukesha. "Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life" (Scribner), by Carol Sklenicka. A former Marquette University and MIAD instructor's carefully researched biography of the talented but troubled fiction...
Pop Matters, April 21, 2011
...not unknown to me, but I was steeling myself nonetheless, expecting an unhappy awakening along the lines of Carol Sklenicka’s biography of Raymond Carver. Amazingly, Dubus, Jr. manages write honestly without blaming his parents, making it clear both...
Yahoo! News, February 25, 2011
...to pull up any e-books when it checked the site's listings, and neither the book's author, Carol Sklenicka, nor the title of the book returned any hits in the search results. Later, however, the e-book capability appeared. Users need to click the "Books"...