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 Carole Barrowman signing copies of Hollow Earth at Alverno College in 2012 | |
| Born | Carole Emily Barrowman 20 April 1959 |
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| Nationality | Scottish-American |
| Relatives | John Barrowman (brother) |
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Carole Emily Barrowman [1] (born 20 April 1959) is a Scottish-American writer and academic.
She is Professor of English and Director of Creative Studies in Writing at Alverno College, Milwaukee, and a reviewer and crime fiction columnist for the Milwaukee Sentinel .
She is also known for her writing contributions with younger brother, actor, singer and dancer John Barrowman, best-known for his role as Jack Harkness in Doctor Who and Torchwood . [2]
She was credited as co-author on her brother's memoir and autobiography, Anything Goes, which was published in 2008 by Michael O'Mara Books. [3] Part of the writing process involved her transcribing her brother's dictations. [4]
In 2009, John Barrowman published I Am What I Am, also featuring Carole as co-author. [5] In addition to her brother's memoirs, the siblings co-wrote a Torchwood comic strip, featuring Jack Harkness, entitled Captain Jack and the Selkie. [6] The Barrowman siblings' debut novel, titled Hollow Earth , was published in February 2012. [7] In researching the novel, Carole traveled to the west coast of Scotland to visit some of the locations which she and her brother chose to feature in the book. [8]
In addition to her published collaborations, she contributed an essay about her brother to the Hugo Award-winning [9] non-fiction anthology Chicks Dig Time Lords. [10]
Jane Espenson is an American television writer and producer.
"The Empty Child" is the ninth episode of the first series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC One on 21 May 2005. It was directed by James Hawes, and was the first official episode written by Steven Moffat, who previously wrote the Comic Relief mini-episode "The Curse of Fatal Death" in 1999. He would later become the showrunner and main writer of Doctor Who from the fifth to tenth series. "The Empty Child" is the first of a two-part story, which continued and concluded with "The Doctor Dances", on 28 May.
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Captain Jack Harkness is a fictional character played by John Barrowman in Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. The character first appears in the 2005 Doctor Who episode "The Empty Child" and subsequently features in the remaining episodes of the first series (2005) as a companion to the series' protagonist, the Doctor. Subsequent to this, Jack became the central character in the adult-themed Torchwood, which aired from 2006 to 2011. Barrowman reprised the role for appearances in Doctor Who in its third, fourth, and twelfth series, as well as specials "The End of Time", and "Revolution of the Daleks".
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