Carol Emshwiller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carol Emshwiller

American fiction writer

Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1921

Place of Birth: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 02-Feb-2019

Profession: writer, novelist, science fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Carol Emshwiller (April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019) was an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K.
Dick Award.
Ursula K.
Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction." Among her novels are Carmen Dog and The Mount.
She has also written two cowboy novels called Ledoyt and Leaping Man Hill.
Her last novel, The Secret City, was published in April 2007. She was the widow of artist and experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller and "regularly served as his model for paintings of beautiful women." Their daughter Susan Emshwiller co-wrote the movie Pollock.
Their son Peter Emshwiller is an actor, artist, screenwriter, and novelist.
Their daughter Eve is a botanist and ethnobotanist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.