Carole Maso

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Carole Maso is a contemporary American novelist and essayist, known for her experimental, poetic and fragmentary narratives often labeled as 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, which was published in 1998. Currently (2006) she is a professor of English at Brown University. She has previously held positions as a writer-in-residence at Illinois State and George Washington University, as well as teaching writing at Columbia University.

[edit] Books

• Ghost Dance, 1986
• The Art Lover, 1990
• AVA, 1993
• The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, 1994
• Aureole: An Erotic Sequence, 1996
• Defiance, 1998
• Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing and Moments of Desire, 2000
• The Room Lit By Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birth, 2002
• Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo, 2002

[edit] External links

• Dakley Archive Press' Carole Maso page
• WebDelSol's profile of Maso
• Rain Taxi interview with Maso, 1997/98
• Article about Defiance
• Barcelona Review interview with Maso, 2000
• Essay from Break Every Rule