Carole Maso

Carole Maso

Carole Maso is a contemporary American novelist and essayist, known for her experimental, poetic and fragmentary narratives often called postmodern. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Vassar College in 1977. Her first published novel was "Ghost Dance", which appeared in 1986. Her best known novel is probably "Defiance", published in 1998. She is a professor of English at Brown University, and has previously held positions as a writer-in-residence at Illinois State and George Washington University, as well as teaching writing at Columbia University.

Books

*"Ghost Dance", 1986, ISBN 0880014091
*"The Art Lover", 1990, ISBN 0811216292
*"AVA", 1993, ISBN 1564780740
*"The American Woman in the Chinese Hat", 1994, ISBN 1564780457
*"Aureole: An Erotic Sequence", 1996, (short fiction collection)ISBN 0872864103
*"Defiance", 1998, ISBN 0452278295
*"Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing and Moments of Desire", 2000, ISBN 1582430632
*"The Room Lit By Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birth", 2002, ISBN 1582432120
*"Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo", 2002,ISBN 1582430896

External links

* [http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/maso.html Dalkey Archive Press' Carole Maso page]
* [http://www.webdelsol.com/LITARTS/maso/ WebDelSol's profile of Maso]
* [http://www.raintaxi.com/online/1997winter/maso.shtml Rain Taxi interview with Maso, 1997/98]
* [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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