Jacqueline Carey (novelist Born 1954)
Jacqueline Carey (b. 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and short story writer. Carey grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1977. She lived in New York City for many years but published her first story in The New Yorker in 1986 after a move to Montana. In 2000, she wrote a mystery column for Salon.com. She now lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, writer Ian Frazier, and their two children.
Carey won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999 to write The Crossley Baby.
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