Josephine Carson
Personal Information
Description
Carson was born in Tulsa and attended Tulsa University and the University of California in Los Angeles. She lived in New York City, in Mexico, in Los Angeles and in the San Francisco area. She worked in libraries and bookstores, did fashion modeling, worked in advertising, medical research and public relations. She taught writing at Bennington College, San Francisco State, and UC Berkeley.
Books
Dog Star and Other Stories
"This work shines with the rare quality of vision. I wish Josephine Carson were a benevolent deity, presiding over us all. Her nuanced, passionate attentions to character informs each of these stories with mercy and light." --Frances Mayes, author of under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy"These are lovely stories. Subtle, intelligent, and artfully nuanced, they play on the page like music."--Molly Giles, author of Creek Walk and Other Stories and Rough Translations
First man, last man
Backwoods wanderer's brute and inarticulate struggle with life is mirrored in his daughter's articulate search for fulfillment.
Drives my green age
Tale of a 12-year-old orphan girl in a small Kansas town.