Carol E St John

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Carol Egmont Delamater St. John (born April 20, 1940) is an American artist, author and playwright.

Born in Brooklyn, her father, Westy Egmont, was a lawyer and her mother, Louise Egmont, was an artist and poet. A graduate of the Berkeley Carroll School, State University of New York at Cortland and Northeastern University, she taught at every level of education for 35 years. With a love of theater she inherited from her parents, she wrote and produced over 18 original plays featuring over a thousand children. She also headed up significant fundraisers for Oxfam, Ending Hunger, and pump projects in Nicaragua.

In the 1990's she opened her studio gallery on Rocky Neck, in Gloucester's oldest art community, and from there she created adult workshops in creativity and established the Learning Umbrella on Cape Ann, MA.

Her first book Taproots: Where Ideas are Born was published by Twin Lights Publishers, Rockport, MA. In 2004, a novel, Anchors of the Soul was published by First Books. She currently writes a by-line on art in The Villager.