Carol Anshaw Explained

Carol Anshaw
Birth Date:22 March 1946
Birth Place:Grosse Pointe, Michigan, U.S.
Language:English
Education:Michigan State University (BA)
Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA)

Carol Anshaw (born March 22, 1946) is an American novelist and short story writer. Publishing Triangle named her debut novel, Aquamarine, one of "The Triangle's 100 Best" gay and lesbian novels of the 1990s.[1] Four of her books have been finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction,[2] [3] [4] [5] and Lucky in the Corner won the 2003 Ferro-Grumley Award.[6]

Personal life

Carol Anshaw was born on March 22, 1946, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.[7] Her mother was Virginia Anshaw Stanley and her father was Henry G. Stanley. During Anshaw's childhood and adolescence, her family lived in Michigan and Florida.[8]

Anshaw received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University in 1968. After graduation, she moved to Chicago. She acquired her Master of Fine Arts degree at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1992.

In 1969, she married Charles White. The couple eventually divorced in 1985.

Since 1996 Anshaw has been partners with the documentary maker and photographer, Jessie Ewing. They were married on May 25, 2014.[9] Now, the couple divides their time between Chicago and Amsterdam.[10]

Career

Anshaw has been writing fiction since 1972. Her stories have appeared in Story magazine, Tin House, The Best American Stories and Do Me: Tales of Sex and Love from Tin House.[11]

She has published five novels. Her first, the critically acclaimed Aquamarine (1992) explores one life lived on parallel paths. [12] [13]

Perhaps Anshaw's most popular novel,Carry the One (2012), has been highly regarded as a portrait of grief and American culture.[14] The novel received warm endorsements from Emma Donoghue and Alison Bechdel.[15] Set mainly in Chicago, Anshaw deftly takes the narrative's point of view from character to character, showing "how time affects relationships, tipping emotional dominoes one way or another within a family or circle of friends."

Her stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories in 1994, 1998, and 2012.

She has won a National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing; a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship; an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship; a Carl Sandburg Award, a Ferro-Grumley Award and Society of Midland Authors Award.

Anshaw is also a painter, and is currently working on a sequence of paintings of the English Channel swimmer, Gertrude Ederle. "Walking Through Leaves," her painted biography of the novelist and poet, Vita Sackville-West was put up in November 2013 at Rockford University, Rockford, IL.[16] [17] [18] [19]

Awards

Publishing Triangle named Aquamarine one of "The Triangle's 100 Best" gay and lesbian novels of the 1990s.

Works

Anthology contributions

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Best Lesbian and Gay Novels. 2022-02-23. The Publishing Triangle. en-US.
  2. Web site: 1993-07-14. 5th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. 2022-01-18. Lambda Literary. en.
  3. Web site: Antonio. Gonzalez Cerna. 1997-07-15. 9th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. live. 2022-01-18. Lambda Literary. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20200804135708/https://www.lambdaliterary.org/1997/07/lambda-literary-awards-1996/ . 2020-08-04 .
  4. Web site: Gonzalez Cerna. Antonio. 2003-07-10. 15th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. live. 2022-01-18. Lambda Literary. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20200506234143/https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2003/07/lambda-literary-awards-2002/ . 2020-05-06 .
  5. Web site: 2013-06-04. 25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced!. 2022-01-11. Lambda Literary. en.
  6. Web site: The Ferro-Grumley Awards. 2022-02-23. The Publishing Triangle. en-US.
  7. "Carol Anshaw" in the U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2
  8. Web site: Rolle. Elisa. 22 March 2015. Carol Anshaw & Jessie Ewing. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150604202248/http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3514899.html . 2015-06-04 . 2020-12-02. Reviews-and-Ramblings. en.
  9. Web site: Carol Anshaw & Jessie Ewing . Chicago Gay History. September 25, 2012.
  10. Web site: Carol Anshaw About. 2020-12-02. www.carolanshaw.com.
  11. Web site: 2012-03-16. The Parlor » Carol Anshaw. 2020-12-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20120316161246/http://theparlorreads.com/authors/carol-anshaw/. 2012-03-16.
  12. News: Kakutani. Michiko. 2012-03-12. One Death That Haunts Many Lives (Published 2012). en-US. The New York Times. 2020-12-02. 0362-4331.
  13. Web site: Coates. Joseph. 2 February 1992. ONE WOMAN - THREE LIVES. 2020-12-02. Chicago Tribune. en-US.
  14. Web site: Straight. Susan. 10 March 2012. 'Carry the One' by Carol Anshaw - The Boston Globe. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062703/http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2012/03/11/carry-one-carol-anshaw/vp2WJYioNylEQJIgG6OEYI/story.html . 2016-03-04 . 2020-12-02. BostonGlobe. en-US.
  15. News: Brownrigg. Sylvia. 2012-03-23. A Wedding and a Funeral (Published 2012). en-US. The New York Times. 2020-12-02. 0362-4331.
  16. Web site: Carol Anshaw Paintings. 2020-12-02. www.carolanshaw.com.
  17. Web site: Casper. Monica J.. 16 May 2014. Feminists We Love: Carol Anshaw – The Feminist Wire. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20140519072041/http://thefeministwire.com:80/2014/05/feminists-love-carol-anshaw/ . 2014-05-19 . 2020-12-02. The Feminist Wire. en-US.
  18. Web site: Carol Anshaw. 2020-12-02. The Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc.. en-US.
  19. Web site: Lehoczky. Etelka. 11 June 2002. Lucky in Chicago: Carol Anshaw Celebrates Life and Love in the Second City with Her New Novel, Lucky in the Corner. The Advocate.
  20. Web site: Past Winners. February 23, 2022 . The Society of Midland Authors.
  21. Web site: Winners List . February 23, 2022 . San Francisco Book Festival.

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