Carol Edgarian's novel Rise the Euphrates (Random House) was hailed by the Washington Post as "a book whose generosity of spirit, intelligence, humanity, and finally ambition are what literature ought to be and rarely is today: daring, heartbreaking, and affirmative, giving order and sense to our random lives."
Ms. Edgarian edits Narrative magazine. She is co-editor (with Tom Jenks) of The Writer's Life: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame from the Diaries of the World's Great Writers (Vintage Books).
She has written articles and essays for Vogue, Allure, and Travel & Leisure, among others. Her work is available in translation and in a number of anthologies. Rise the Euphrates received the 1994 ANC Freedom Award and was nominated for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Best Fiction Prize. She is at work on a new novel and teaches privately in San Francisco.
Recent books and articles by Carol Edgarian:
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Of Rise the Euphrates, the Miami Herald said, "Edgarian's sumptuous writing and uncommon wisdom about the human spirit and its maiming seep into a reader's heart, refusing to leave. This is a stunning debut, a book that will doubtless haunt its readers as it beguiles them." |
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The Writer's Life: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame from the Diaries of the World's Great Writers, edited with Tom Jenks. Published by Vintage Books in November 1997. Available from Amazon or by calling 1-800-223-6834 or from your bookstore. |
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The Soul of San Francisco: an essay appearing in the February 2003 issue of Travel & Leisure. |
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Sister
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essay on sisterhood appearing in the anthology Forever Sisters, edited by Claudia O’Keefe (Pocket Books). |