Карен Джой Фаулер — об авторе

Karen Joy Fowler, born on February 7, 1950, lived in Bloomington, Indiana--where her father was a professor of psychology--until she was eleven years old. "Bloomington lives in my mind as a sort of Oz-like place where I caught fireflies and watched lightning and ran around. None of the yards were fenced, so we could play games that covered massive amounts of territory." She then moved to Palo Alto, California, and was outraged to find that all the yards were fenced. "As part of growing up, I suppose, the things I was expected to do got smaller and smaller anyway, in the same way that the territory I was allowed to occupy got smaller and smaller because of the differences between California…

Karen Joy Fowler, born on February 7, 1950, lived in Bloomington, Indiana--where her father was a professor of psychology--until she was eleven years old. "Bloomington lives in my mind as a sort of Oz-like place where I caught fireflies and watched lightning and ran around. None of the yards were fenced, so we could play games that covered massive amounts of territory." She then moved to Palo Alto, California, and was outraged to find that all the yards were fenced. "As part of growing up, I suppose, the things I was expected to do got smaller and smaller anyway, in the same way that the territory I was allowed to occupy got smaller and smaller because of the differences between California and Indiana."

Fowler majored in political science at the University of California at Berkeley, and had her first baby at twenty-three during the last year of her master's program at the University of California at Davis. After completing her master's degree, she entered what she refers to as her "child-rearing years." Though she loves her two children with an intensity that still amazes her, Fowler--then thirty years old--began to feel restless. She decided to take a dance class to reclaim some territory of her own. "And it was only after I realized that I wasn't going to make it as a dancer that I took a creative writing class in Davis."

Fowler began to publish science fiction stories. She soon made a name for herself in the sci-fi community with the publication of Artificial Things, a collection of short stories. She then wrote her first novel, SARAH CANARY, a critically acclaimed book that she hoped would bridge the gap between mainstream and science fiction. Fowler considers her second novel, THE SWEETHEART SEASON, to be "a romantic comedy with historical and fantastical elements."

In 1991, Fowler, along with science fiction writer Pat Murphy, created the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award which, in Fowler's words, "is presented annually to a short story or novel that explores or expands our understanding of gender...both to honor Alice Sheldon [the science fiction author who used the pen name James Tiptree] and to remind the field of its own importance in the continual struggle to re-imagine more livable sexual roles for ourselves." Karen Joy Fowler, who lives in Davis and now writes full time.

Романы

* Sarah Canary (1991)
* The Sweetheart Season (1996)
* Sister Noon (2001)
* Книжный клуб Джейн Остен / The Jane Austen Book Club (2004)
* Ледяной город / Wit's End (2008)
* The Science of Herself (2013)
* Мы совершенно не в себе / We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013)

Collections

* Artificial Things (1985)
* Black Glass (1997)

Fiction Series

* Author's Choice Monthly
o 6 Peripheral Vision (1990) [C]

Anthologies

* Letters from Home (1991) with Pat Cadigan and Pat Murphy
* MOTA 3: Courage (2003)
* The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, The Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies (2004) with Pat Murphy
* The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 :…

Романы

* Sarah Canary (1991)
* The Sweetheart Season (1996)
* Sister Noon (2001)
* Книжный клуб Джейн Остен / The Jane Austen Book Club (2004)
* Ледяной город / Wit's End (2008)
* The Science of Herself (2013)
* Мы совершенно не в себе / We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013)

Collections

* Artificial Things (1985)
* Black Glass (1997)

Fiction Series

* Author's Choice Monthly
o 6 Peripheral Vision (1990) [C]

Anthologies

* Letters from Home (1991) with Pat Cadigan and Pat Murphy
* MOTA 3: Courage (2003)
* The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, The Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies (2004) with Pat Murphy
* The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 : Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies (2005) with Debbie Notkin and Pat Murphy and Jeffrey D. Smith
* The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3 (2007) with Jeffrey D. Smith and Debbie Notkin and Pat Murphy
* The James Tiptree Award Anthology 4 (2008) with Pat Murphy and Debbie Notkin and Jeffrey D. Smith

Nonfiction

* Reading Women (2006) with Stefan Bollman

Рассказы

* Praxis (1985)
* Recalling Cinderella (1985)
* The Poplar Street Study (1985)
* The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things (1985)
* The War of the Roses (1985)
* The Gate of Ghosts (1986)
* Contention (1986)
* Other Planes (1986)
* The Bog People (1986)
* The View from Venus (1986)
* Wild Boys: Variations on a Theme (1986)
* Wild Boys (1986)
* The Dragon's Head (1986)
* Face Value (1986)
* Letters From Home (1987)
* The Faithful Companion at Forty (1987)
* Heartland (1988)
* Lily Red (1988)
* Game Night at the Fox & Goose (1989) also appeared as:
o Variant Title: Game Night at the Fox and Goose (1989)
* Faded Roses (1989)
* Duplicity (1989)
* Lieserl (1990)
* Sarah Canary and the Mermaid (1990)
* Sarah Canary (Excerpt) (1991)
* The Dark (1991)
* Black Glass (1991)
* The Brew (1995)
* Shimabara (1995)
* Комплекс Элизабет / The Elizabeth Complex (1996)
* The Queen of Hearts and Swords (1996)
* The Marianas Islands (1996)
* The Black Fairy's Curse (1997)
* The Reef Builders (1997) with Maureen F. McHugh and Rosaleen Love and Terry Bisson
* Standing Room Only (1997)
* Go Back (1998)
* The Travails (1998)
* What I Didn't See (2002)
* Private Grave 9 (2003)
* King Rat (2003)
* Always (2007)
* The Last Worders (2007)

Essays

* Introduction (Peripheral Vision) (1990)
* Letter (Science Fiction Eye #8) (1991)
* You, Yourself, Are a Delight, and It Is Only Your Work That Is Overwrought or Lacking in Affect or Clichéd or Drearily Jejune (1991)
* Foreword (And the Angels Sing) (1992)
* Foreword (Artificial Things) (1992)
* Introduction (Neat Sheets) (1996)
* Once More, with Meaning (1996)
* Introduction (Terminal Visions) (2000)
* Introduction (MOTA 3: Courage) (2003)
* Introduction (The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1) (2004) with Pat Murphy
* Foreword (Attack of the Jazz Giants and Other Stories) (2005)
* Author's Commentary (Shimabara) (2007)
* Introduction (Ascendancies) (2007)
* On James Patrick Kelly (2009)