Carol Emshwiller

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Carol Fries Emshwiller (born Carol Fries on April 12, 1921 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ; died February 2, 2019 in Durham , North Carolina ) was an American writer . She is known as a writer of avant-garde short stories and of science fiction and fantasy .

Life

Emshwiller's father was a professor of English and linguistics at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She grew up alternately in France and the USA, worked for the Red Cross during World War II and then began to study music and then art at the University of Michigan, where she met her husband Ed Emshwiller in a drawing course . They married in 1949, Carol did her bachelor's degree and then went to Paris for a year , where she studied with a Fulbright scholarship at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . Ed and Carol then went on a motorcycle tour across Europe.

Emshwiller's first published fantastic short story This Thing Called Love appeared in Future Science Fiction magazine in 1955 . There, and especially in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , numerous other stories appeared in the following years, which - as is regularly noted - both due to their literary quality and their handling of the conventions of the genre as outside the realm of normal science Fiction were perceived. She was counted as part of the new wave of science fiction and certainly felt that she belonged to the artistic avant-garde of the 1960s, but the way she wrote and treated her subjects was more like a form of magical realism . She has also been assigned to feminist science fiction, although it has been criticized that the behavior of her female characters seems to be the result of biological conditioning and not that of cultural influences. The always-present, often subliminal irony of an author who writes from the first-person perspective does not make classifications any easier and makes misunderstandings easier.

The topic is metamorphoses several times, transformations from animals to humans and vice versa, whereby an animal that takes on female traits then literally becomes a woman and, conversely, people who forget their humanity eventually become animals. In her first and for a long time only novel, Carmen Dog, the protagonist, the setter Pooch, is a member of a dysfunctional family. Little by little Pooch takes care of the child, laundry and more, as the lady of the house drinks too much, starts to smell musty and slowly turns into a snapping turtle . Since Pooch takes on feminine attributes of caring and responsibility, Pooch consequently also becomes a woman.

Since 1978 Emshwiller has been a lecturer at the Continuing Education Faculty at New York University . The couple lived alternately in winter in New York and in summer in California . Emshwiller was also a lecturer in the Clarion Science Fiction Writers 'Workshop (1978 and 1979) and the Clarion West Writers' Workshop (1998 and 2000).

Carol and Ed Emshwiller had a son and two daughters together. In 1990 Ed Emshwiller died at the age of 65. In an essay, Carol Emshwiller described the influence that the death of her husband had on her writing work, in particular on the two novels Ledoyt (1995) and Leaping Man Hill (1999), which were written in these years , insofar as they differ from their previous genre and Style distanced - both novels are set in the American West at the beginning of the 20th century - and on the other hand gave up the previously maintained distance to their characters.

In 2009, Emshwiller donated her manuscripts and other materials to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Collection , located at Northern Illinois University .

Awards

bibliography

Novels

  • Carmen Dog (1988)
  • Ledoyt (1995)
  • Leaping Man Hill (1999)
  • The Mount (2002)
  • Mister Boots (2005)
  • The Secret City (2007)

Collections

  • Joy in Our Cause (1974)
  • Verging on the Pertinent (1989)
  • The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories (1990)
  • Report to the Men's Club (2002)
  • I Live with You (2005)
  • In the Time of War and Other Stories of Conflict (2011)
  • Master of the Road to Nowhere and Other Tales of the Fantastic (2011)
  • The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 (2011)
  • The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 2 (2016)

Short stories

  • Built for Pleasure (1954)
  • The Victim (1955)
  • This Thing Called Love (1955)
  • Love Me Again (1956)
  • The Piece Thing (1956)
  • Bingo and Bongo (1956)
  • Hands (1957)
  • Murray is for Murder (1957)
  • Nightmare Call (1957)
  • Hunting Machine (1957)
  • The Coming (1957)
  • You'll Feel Better ... (1957)
  • Two-Step for Six Legs (1957)
  • Baby (1958)
  • Idol's Eye (1958)
  • Pelt (1958)
  • Day at the Beach (1959)
  • Puritan Planet (1960)
  • Adapted (1961)
  • But Soft, What Light ... (1966)
  • A Dream of Flying (1966, also as Chicken Icarus )
  • Eohippus (1967)
  • Krashaw (1967)
  • Sex and / or Mr. Morrison (1967)
  • Animal (1968)
  • Lib (1968)
  • Methapyrilene Hydrochloride Sometimes Helps (1968)
  • I Love You (1969)
  • White Dove (1969)
  • Peninsula (1970)
  • The Institute (1970)
  • The Queen of Sleep (1970)
  • Debut (1970)
    • German: The Debutante. In: Damon Knight (Ed.): Damon Knight's Collection 8. Fischer Taschenbuch (Fischer Orbit # 15), 1972, ISBN 3-436-01629-2 .
  • Woman Waiting (1970)
    • German: waiting time. In: Damon Knight (Ed.): Damon Knight's Collection 11. Fischer Taschenbuch (Fischer Orbit # 29), 1973, ISBN 3-436-01769-8 .
  • Yes, Virginia (1971)
  • A Possible Episode in the Picaresque Adventures of Mr. JHB Monstrosee (1971)
  • Al (1972)
  • Strangers (1973)
  • The Childhood of the Human Hero (1973)
    • German: The childhood of the human hero. In: Kate Wilhelm (ed.): The plan is love and death. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6730), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6730-X .
  • Autobiography (1974)
  • Biography of an Uncircumcised Man (Including Interview) (1974)
  • Destinations, Premonitions and the Nature of Anxiety (1974)
  • Dog Is Dead (1974)
  • Joy in Our Cause (1974)
  • Maybe Another Long March Across China 80,000 Strong (1974)
  • To the Association (1974)
  • One Part of the Self Is Always Tall and Dark (1977)
  • Thanne Longen Folk to Goen on Pilgrimages (1977)
  • Escape Is No Accident (1977)
  • Expecting Sunshine and Getting It (1978)
  • Abominable (1980)
  • Omens (1980)
  • Slowly Bumbling in the Void (1981)
  • The Start of the End of the World (1981, also called The Start of the End of It All )
    • German: The beginning of the end of the world. In: Josh Pachter (ed.): Top Science Fiction: Part Two. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4517), 1988, ISBN 3-453-02774-4 .
  • Queen Kong (1982)
  • The Futility of Fixed Positions (1982)
  • Mental Health and Its Alternative (1983)
  • Verging on the Pertinent (1984)
  • There Is No God But Bog (1985)
  • Eclipse (1986)
  • If Not Forever, When? (1987)
  • The Circular Library of Stones (1987)
    • English: The circular library of stones. In: HJ Alpers (ed.): The stars are female. Moewig (Moewig Science Fiction # 3874), 1989, ISBN 3-8118-3874-1 .
  • Vilcabamba (1987)
  • Fledged (1988)
  • Being Mysterious Strangers from Distant Shores (1989)
  • Living at the Center (1989)
  • As If (1989)
  • Clerestory (1989)
  • Not Burning (1989)
  • Secrets of the Native Tongue (1989)
  • The Promise of Undying Love (1989)
  • What Every Woman Knows (1989)
  • Yukon (1989)
  • Acceptance Speech (1990)
  • Glory, Glory (1990)
  • If the Word Was to the Wise (1990)
  • Moon Songs (1990)
  • Peri (1990)
  • There Is No Evil Angel But Love (1990)
  • Looking Down (1990)
  • Draculalucard (1991)
  • Emissary (1991)
  • Venus Rising (1992)
  • Mrs. Jones (1993)
  • Modillion (1994)
  • After Shock (1995)
  • Ledoyt (excerpt) (1996)
  • A Is for Abel, B Is for Bird (1998)
  • Foster Mother (2001)
  • The Project (2001)
  • Creature (2001)
  • After All (2002)
  • Desert Child (2002)
  • It Comes from Deep Inside (2002)
  • Nose (2002)
  • Prejudice and Pride (2002)
  • Report to the Men's Club (2002)
  • The Paganini of Jacob's Gully (2002)
  • Water Master (2002)
  • Grandma (2002)
  • Overlooking (2002)
  • Josephine (2002)
  • The Prince of Mules (2002)
  • The Doctor (2002)
  • Lightning (2003)
  • Boys (2003)
  • The General (2003)
  • Coo People (2003)
  • Repository (2003)
  • Gods and Three Wishes (2003)
  • The Assassin, or Being the Loved One (2004)
  • On Display Among the Lesser (2004)
  • My General (2004)
  • Gliders Though They Be (2004)
  • The Library (2004)
  • All of Us Can Almost ... (2004)
  • I Live with You (2005, also as I Live with You and You Don't Know It )
  • Bountiful City (2005)
  • See No Evil, Feel No Joy (2005)
  • The Being of It All (2005)
  • World of no Return (2006)
  • Quill (2006)
  • Killers (2006)
  • The Seducer (2006)
  • Such a Woman, Or, Sixties Rant (2006)
  • God Clown (2007)
  • At Sixes and Sevens (2007)
  • Sanctuary (2007)
  • Master of the Road to Nowhere (2008)
  • All Washed Up While Looking for a Better World (2008)
  • Self Story (2008)
  • Wilmer or Wesley (2008)
  • Whoever (2008)
  • The Perfect Infestation (2009)
  • The Bird Painter in Time of War (2009)
  • The Dignity He's Due (2009)
  • The Meaning of the Fields (2009)
  • A Safe Place to Be (2009)
  • Logicist (2009)
  • Above It All (2010)
  • Wilds (2010)
  • The Abominable Child's Tale (2010, also as The Abominable Child , 2016)
  • On Not Going Extinct (2010)
  • No Time Like the Present (2010)
  • The Lovely Ugly (2010)
  • Uncle E (2010)
  • The New and Perfect Man (2011)
  • A Hello to Arms (2011)
  • Chasing Songs (2011, also as Mountain Song , 2016)
  • All the News That's Fit (2011, also as The News That's Fit , 2016)
  • The Mismeasure of Me (2011, also as The Mismeasure of Me And How I Saved the World , 2016)
  • Danilo (2011)
  • Riding Red Ted and Breathing Fire (2012, also as Riding Red Ted , 2016)
  • All I Know of Freedom (2012)

literature

Web links

Commons : Carol Emshwiller  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carol Emshwiller (1921-2019) , obituary in Locus , February 5, 2019, accessed February 5, 2019.
  2. ↑ Autobiography , accessed February 6, 2019.
  3. ↑ Liz Holliday: Emshwiller, Carol. In: David Pringle : St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers. St. James Press, New York 1996, ISBN 1-55862-205-5 , p. 184.
  4. ^ Janice M. Bogstad: Emshwiller, Carol . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , p. 250.
  5. ↑ Carol Emshwiller: How My Husband's Death Changed My Writing. ( Memento from June 5, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Essay. Fantastic Metropolis, September 11, 2002.
personal data
SURNAME Emshwiller, Carol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emshwiller, Carol Fries (full name); Fries, Carol (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Ann Arbor , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 2019
Place of death Durham , North Carolina