Carol Sklenicka

About The Author

Carol Sklenicka is the author of Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life, which was named of one of the 10 Best Books of 2009 by The New York Times Book Review, and Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer. She lives with poet and novelist R.M. Ryan in northern California.

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Books by Carol Sklenicka

Alice Adams

Portrait of a Writer

By Carol Sklenicka

The first full-scale biography of prolific writer Alice Adams, whose celebrated stories and bestselling novels traced women’s lives and illuminated “an era characterized both by drastic cultural changes and by the persistence of old expectations, conventions, and biases” (The New Yorker...

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Raymond Carver

A Writer's Life

By Carol Sklenicka

When Raymond Carver died at age fifty, readers lost a distinctive voice in its prime.

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