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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Born in [[San Antonio]], Texas on October 21, 1954, Carter was the daughter of Will Cecil and Yolanda Carter (a small press publisher, née Calderon).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1000016161/LitRC?u=ever87615&sid=LitRC|title=Carmen Carter|last=|first=|date=2002|website=Contemporary Authors Online|publisher=Gale|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref> After earning a BA from UT Austin and an MS from Indiana University, she wrote books in her spare time for many years. In an interview with Contemporary Authors after the publication of ''The Children of Hamlin'', she noted, "For the past twenty years, writing has been my hobby ... now that two books have made it into print, I am forced to reconsider my point of view."<ref name=":0" /> She published two further books. ''The Devil's Heart'', from 1994, is presently her last.
Born in [[San Antonio]], Texas on October 21, 1954, Carter was the daughter of Will Cecil and Yolanda Carter (a small press publisher, née Calderon).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1000016161/LitRC?u=ever87615&sid=LitRC|title=Carmen Carter|last=|first=|date=2002|website=Contemporary Authors Online|publisher=Gale|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref> After earning a BA from UT Austin and an MS from Indiana University, she wrote books in her spare time for many years. In an interview with ''[[Contemporary Authors]]'' after the publication of ''The Children of Hamlin'', she noted, "For the past twenty years, writing has been my hobby ... now that two books have made it into print, I am forced to reconsider my point of view."<ref name=":0" /> She published two further books. ''The Devil's Heart'', from 1994, is presently her last.


== Themes and Critical Response ==
== Themes and Critical Response ==

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Carmen Carter
Born(1954-10-21)October 21, 1954
San Antonio, Texas, United States
NationalityAmerican
Period1987–1994
GenreScience Fiction

Carmen Cecilia Carter[1] (1954–Present) is a science fiction writer, author of several bestselling novels that take place in the Star Trek universe.

Biography

Born in San Antonio, Texas on October 21, 1954, Carter was the daughter of Will Cecil and Yolanda Carter (a small press publisher, née Calderon).[2] After earning a BA from UT Austin and an MS from Indiana University, she wrote books in her spare time for many years. In an interview with Contemporary Authors after the publication of The Children of Hamlin, she noted, "For the past twenty years, writing has been my hobby ... now that two books have made it into print, I am forced to reconsider my point of view."[2] She published two further books. The Devil's Heart, from 1994, is presently her last.

Themes and Critical Response

Carter's first book, Dreams of the Raven, was a New York Times paperback bestseller,[3] as was her third, Doomsday World[4]. Her fourth, The Devil's Heart, was a bestseller in hardcover.[5] In his review of The Devil's Heart for School Library Journal, John Lawson wrote of the novel's themes of the temptation of power and greed, noting also, "Carter has woven several individual story lines into a complex, textured, well-written plot and peopled it with three-dimensional characters."[6]

Bibliography

  • Dreams of the Raven (1987) ISBN 0-671-64500-5
  • The Children of Hamlin (1988) ISBN 978-0-7434-1215-5
  • Doomsday World (with Michael Jan Friedman, Peter David, and Robert Greenberger) (1990) ISBN 0-671-74144-6
  • The Devil's Heart (1994) ISBN 0-7434-2063-2

References

  1. ^ "Authors : Carter, Carmen : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  2. ^ a b "Carmen Carter". Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. 2002. Retrieved 30 January 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ "Paperback Best Sellers: June 21, 1987". The New York Times. 1987-06-21. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  4. ^ "PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: July 29, 1990". The New York Times. 1990-07-29. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  5. ^ "BEST SELLERS: April 18, 1993". The New York Times. 1993-04-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  6. ^ Lawson, John (November 1993). "Carter, Carmen. The Devil's Heart". School Library Journal – via EBSCOHost.

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Category:American science fiction writers Category:American women novelists Category:American fantasy writers Category:20th-century American novelists Category:1938 births Category:Women science fiction and fantasy writers Category:20th-century American women writers Category:20th-century American writers Category:1991 deaths

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