thumb|250px|JCarroll in Poland (2012)

Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy. He has lived in Austria since 1974. A self-described "troubled teenager", he finished primary education at the Loomis School in Connecticut and graduated with honors from Rutgers University in 1971, marrying artist Beverly Schreiner in the same year.

His son, Ryder Carroll, is the inventor of the Bullet Journal.

Awards

Carroll's short story "Friend's Best Man" won the World Fantasy Award. His novel Outside the Dog Museum won the British Fantasy Award and his collection of short stories won the Bram Stoker Award. The short story "Uh-Oh City" won the French Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. His short story "Home on the Rain" was chosen as one of the best stories of the year by the Pushcart Prize committee. Carroll has been a runner-up for other World Fantasy Awards, the Hugo, and British Fantasy Awards.

Bibliography

Novels

  • The Land of Laughs (1980)
  • Voice of Our Shadow (1983)
  • The Answered Prayers Sextet
  • Bones of the Moon (1987) (slightly revised US edition, 1988)
  • Sleeping in Flame (1988) – World Fantasy Award nominee, 1989
  • A Child Across the Sky (1989, Washington Post Book of the Year) – BSFA nominee, 1989;
  • Outside the Dog Museum (1991) – British Fantasy Award winner, WFA nominee, 1992
  • The Crane's View Trilogy
  • Kissing The Beehive (1997) – British Fantasy Award nominee, 1999
  • The Marriage of Sticks (2000) – British Fantasy Award nominee, 2000
  • The Wooden Sea (2001, New York Times Book Review Notable Book) – Locus and World Fantasy Awards nominee, 2002
  • White Apples (2002) – Locus and World Fantasy Awards nominee, 2003
  • Glass Soup (2005)
  • Oko Dnia (Eye of the Day) (2006, Polish language edition)
  • The Ghost in Love (2008)
  • Bathing the Lion (2014)
  • Mr. Breakfast (2019, Polish Language edition) (2020, Italian Language edition) (TBP Jan 17 2023, English Language edition)

Novellas and short novels

  • Black Cocktail (1990)
  • The Discovery of Running Bare (1992) [Included in Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman's SF and Horror fiction anthology, In Dreams (Victor Gollancz Ltd, London). ]
  • The Heidelberg Cylinder (2000) [1000 copy limited edition, signed by Jonathan Carroll and cover artist Dave McKean. A few remaining copies left over from the print run were sold without signatures.]
  • Teaching the Dog to Read (2015)

Short story collections

  • Die Panische Hand (1989) (German language edition)
  • The Panic Hand (1995) [expansion of the 1989 German language edition; the 1996 US edition adds the novella Black Cocktail]
  • The Woman Who Married A Cloud: Collected Stories (2012)

Nonfiction

  • The Crow's Dinner (2017)

Further reading

  • Edna Stumpf. "Jonathan Carroll: Galen to Vienna to the World". In Schweitzer, Darrell (ed). Discovering Modern Horror Fiction. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1985, pp. 129–34.

References

  • Official website