Jonathan Carroll

Steffen Hantke (Sogang University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.2: German-language Writing and Culture: Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, 800-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 26 Jan 1949
Activity 1973-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in Austria; United States

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Story-writer

Resources

Carroll's Works

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Jonathan Samuel Carroll's twelve novels, two long novellas, and assorted short stories – most of them collected in

The Panic Hand

(German transl. 1989, US edition 1996) – straddle the fence between genre and mainstream writing; just which genre exactly is hard to tell. The fact that Carroll was nominated nine times for the World Fantasy Award and four times for the British Fantasy Award, that his short story “Friend's Best Man” (1988) and his collection

The Panic Hand

(1995) each won a Bram Stoker Award, and that his novel

Outside the Dog Museum

(1991) won a British Fantasy Award, place Carroll in the neighborhood of the modern fantastic, perhaps of magical realism or the contemporary Gothic. Genre audiences have embraced him enthusiastically, but reviews of his novels in the…

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Citation: Hantke, Steffen. "Jonathan Carroll". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 April 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5206, accessed 21 November 2024.]