Carole Maso
{{short description|American novelist}}
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{{infobox writer
|name=Carole Maso
|birth_place=Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
|occupation={{flatlist|
- Novelist
- essayist
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|nationality=American
|education=Vassar College (AB)
|website={{url|http://www.carolemaso.com/}}
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Carole Maso is a contemporary American novelist and essayist, known for her experimental, poetic and fragmentary narratives which are often called postmodern.{{Cite web|title=Carole Maso - AVA|url=http://www.carolemaso.com/ava.html|access-date=2020-10-13|website=www.carolemaso.com}}{{cite thesis |last=Kurup |first=Seema |date=2004 |title=A book of her own : postmodern practices in contemporary American women's experimental literature |type=PhD |publisher=Kent State University |oclc=61264704 }}{{cite thesis |last=Baer |first=Andrea Patricia |date=2008 |title=The moods of postmodern metafiction: narrative and affective literary spaces and reader (dis)engagement |type=PhD |publisher=University of Washington |oclc=262480725 }} She is a recipient of a 1993 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.{{Cite web|title=Carole Maso: 1993 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction|url=https://lannan.org/literary/detail/carole-maso/fiction-award|access-date=2020-10-13|website=Lannan Foundation|language=en}}
Biography
Carole Maso was born in Paterson, New Jersey{{Cite web|last=Shengold|first=Nina|title=Carole Maso's Dark Radiance|url=https://www.chronogram.com/hudsonvalley/carole-masos-dark-radiance/Content?oid=2130992|access-date=2020-10-13|website=Chronogram Magazine|language=en}} and received her A.B. in English from Vassar College in 1977.{{Cite journal|date=1987-03-01|title=Interview with novelist Carole Maso '77|url=https://newspaperarchives.vassar.edu/?a=d&d=vq19870301-01.2.33&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------|journal=Vassar Quarterly|volume=LXXXIII|pages=32}}
She has lived in Greenwich Village, the South of France, Provincetown, and the Hudson Valley. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards including the Rose Fellowship, a NEA fellowship,{{Cite book|url=https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA_lit.pdf|title=NEA Literature Fellowships: 40 Years of Supporting American Writers|publisher=National Endowment for the Arts|year=2006|location=Washington, D.C.}} a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, and the [https://www.americanacademy.de/person/carole-maso/ Berlin Prize].
She is the author of ten books and is known for her experimental, fragmentary, and poetic prose. Maso's first published novel was Ghost Dance, which appeared in 1986. She is currently completing two novels: Why So Soon Asleep? and Eternity and the Dreamer.
Maso has been a professor at Columbia University in the School of the Arts and at the [https://literaryarts.brown.edu/people/carole-maso Brown University Literary Arts Program].
She is currently working, as she has been for the last 25 years, on a novel: The Bay of Angels. Parts of The Bay of Angels have appeared in journals and anthologies.{{Cite journal|date=2013|title=Notes on Contributors|journal=Conjunctions|volume=60|issue=60 |pages=379–382|jstor=24517310}}{{Cite web|title=Carole Maso: excerpt from "The Bay of Angels," a novel-in-progress – Tarpaulin Sky Magazine|date=7 April 2018 |url=https://tskymag.com/2018/04/carole-maso/|access-date=2020-10-14|language=en-US}}
Publications
= Novels =
- Ghost Dance. New York: Perennial Library, 1986, {{ISBN|0-88001-409-1}}
- The Art Lover. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990, {{ISBN|0-8112-1629-2}}
- AVA. Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1993, {{ISBN|1-56478-074-0}}
- The American Woman in the Chinese Hat. Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994, {{ISBN|1-56478-045-7}}
- Defiance. New York: Dutton, 1998, {{ISBN|0-452-27829-5}}
- Mother & Child. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2012, {{ISBN|978-1-58243-818-4}}
= Poems in prose =
- Aureole: An Erotic Sequence, Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco, 1996 (Short fiction collection), {{ISBN|0872864103}}
- Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo, 2002, {{ISBN|1-58243-089-6}}
= Essays =
- Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000, {{ISBN|1-58243-063-2}}
= Memoir =
- The Room Lit by Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birth. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2002, {{ISBN|1-58243-212-0}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.carolemaso.com}}
- [http://www.webdelsol.com/LITARTS/maso/ WebDelSol's profile of Maso]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060325014925/http://www.raintaxi.com/online/1997winter/maso.shtml Rain Taxi interview with Maso, 1997/98]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060503121415/http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/2000longlist/DEFIANCE.HTM Article about Defiance]
- [http://www.barcelonareview.com/20/e_cm_int.htm Barcelona Review interview with Maso, 2000]
- [http://www.barcelonareview.com/20/e_cm.htm Essay from Break Every Rule]
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