Carol Anshaw

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Carol Anshaw
Born (1946-03-22) March 22, 1946 (age 77)
Grosse Pointe, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • painter
LanguageEnglish
Education Michigan State University (BA)
Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA)
SpouseJessie Ewing
Website
www.carolanshaw.com

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]

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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.[ citation needed ] She acquired her Master of Fine Arts degree at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1992.[ citation needed ]

In 1969, she married Charles White. The couple eventually divorced in 1985. [8]

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. [9] 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." [12]

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. [11]

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. [1]

Awards for Anshaw's writing
YearTitleAwardResultRef.
1993Aquamarine Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction Finalist [2]
Society of Midland Authors Award for FictionWinner [20]
1997Seven Moves Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction Finalist [3]
2003Lucky in the Corner Ferro-Grumley Award Winner [6]
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction Finalist [4]
Society of Midland Authors Award for Adult FictionFinalist [20]
2012Carry the OneGreen Carnation PrizeShortlist [21]
San Francisco Book Festival for General FictionWinner [22]
2013 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction Finalist [5]
St. Francis College Literary Prize Finalist [23]

(1993)

Publications

Anthology contributions

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  7. ↑ "Carol Anshaw" in the U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2
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  9. 1 2 "Carol Anshaw & Jessie Ewing". Chicago Gay History. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
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