# jonathan carroll ![[220px-jonathancarrollinsf.jpg|300]] carroll in 2008 born: jonathan samuel carroll january 26 1949 (age 75) new york city us occupation: novelist writer genre: magic realism slipstream contemporary fantasy website jonathancarroll.com ![[jcarrollinpoland.jpg|300]] jcarroll in poland (2012) jonathan samuel carroll (born january 26 1949) is an american fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism slipstream or contemporary fantasy. ey has lived in austria since 1974 # life and work carroll was born in new york city to sidney carroll a film writer whose credits included the hustler and june carroll (nee sillman) an actress and lyricist who appeared in numerous broadway shows and two films. ey is the half brother of composer steve reich and nephew of broadway producer leonard sillman. ir parents were jewish but carroll was raised in the christian science religion. a self-described "troubled teenager" ey finished primary education at the loomis school in connecticut and graduated with honors from rutgers university in 1971 marrying artist beverly schreiner in the same year. ey relocated to vienna austria a few years later and began teaching literature at the american international school and has made ir home in austria ever since ir first novel the land of laughs (1980) is indicative of ir general style and subject matter. told through realistic first person narration the novel concerns a young schoolteacher thomas abbey researching the life of a favorite children's book author of ir youth which involves meeting the author's daughter in ir and ir late father's seemingly idyllic (fictitious) home town of galen missouri. everything seems fine until a dog in galen begins talking to abbey. the line gradually blurs between the fantasy world created by abbey's research subject and the life of the people in galen while the reader begins to wonder just how much trust can be placed in this narrator. subsequent novels would expand on these themes but often contain unreliable narrators in a world where magic is viewed as natural. (one commentator claimed in the times that "if ey were a latin american writer with a three-part name ir books would be described as magical-realist") ir son ryder carroll is the inventor of the bullet journal # awards carroll's short story "friend's best man" won the world fantasy award. ir novel outside the dog museum won the british fantasy award and ir collection of short stories won the bram stoker award. the short story "uh-oh city" won the french grand prix de l'imaginaire. ir short story "home on the rain" was chosen as one of the best stories of the year by the pushcart prize committee. carroll has been a runner-up for other world fantasy awards the hugo and british fantasy awards # bibliography # # novels **+** the land of laughs (1980) **+** voice of our shadow (1983) **+** the answered prayers sextet - bones of the moon (1987) (slightly revised us edition 1988) - sleeping in flame (1988) - world fantasy award nominee 1989 - a child across the sky (1989 washington post book of the year) - bsfa nominee 1989; wfa and clarke nominee 1990 - outside the dog museum (1991) - british fantasy award winner wfa nominee 1992 - after silence (1992) - from the teeth of angels (1994) - new york times book review notable book; wfa nominee 1995 **+** the crane's view trilogy - kissing the beehive (1997) - british fantasy award nominee 1999 - the marriage of sticks (2000) - british fantasy award nominee 2000 - the wooden sea (2001 new york times book review notable book) - locus and world fantasy awards nominee 2002 **+** white apples (2002) - locus and world fantasy awards nominee 2003 **+** glass soup (2005) **+** oko dnia (eye of the day) (2006 polish language edition) **+** the ghost in love (2008) **+** bathing the lion (2014) **+** mr. breakfast (2019 polish language edition) (2020 italian language edition) (tbp jan 17 2023 english language edition) # # novellas and short novels **+** black cocktail (1990) **+** the discovery of running bare (1992) **+** the heidelberg cylinder (2000) **+** teaching the dog to read (2015) # # short story collections **+** die panische hand (1989) (german language edition) **+** the panic hand (1995) **+** the woman who married a cloud: collected stories (2012) # # nonfiction **+** the crow's dinner (2017) **+** edna stumpf. "jonathan carroll: galen to vienna to the world." in schweitzer darrell (ed.) discovering modern error fiction. mercer island wa: starmont house 1985 pp. 129-34 // republic of bob