Carolyn See (born Carolyn Penelope Laws; January 13, 1934) is an adjunct professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of nine books, including the memoir, Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America, an advice book on writing, Making a Literary Life, and the novels There Will Never Be Another You and The Handyman.See earned her associate degree from Los Angeles City College and her M.A. from California State University, Los Angeles. See dropped out of graduate school at UCLA to marry and move to Newfoundland, but eventually returned to earn her PhD. As a young woman and single mother, she earned money by testifying for the defense in pornography trials, leading to the successful book Blue Money: Pornography and the Pornographers. Having previously worked as a waitress and a teaching assistant, See's first teaching job was as a professor of English at Loyola Marymount University from 1975 until 1985. This was followed by a period as a visiting professor of English at her alma mater, UCLA, from 1986 to 1989, where she would later become an adjunct professor.She is a frequent book reviewer for The Washington Post, having previously been a book reviewer for the Los Angeles Times and Newsday, and she has been on the boards of the National Book Critics Circle and PENWest International. She has won both the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Getty Center fellowship. She lives in Pacific Palisades, California.See has also written books under the pen name Monica Highland, a name she shared with two others, her daughter Lisa See and her longtime companion, John Espey, who died in 2000.See is known for writing novels set in Los Angeles and has co-edited books that revolve around the city, including a book of short stories, LA Shorts, and the pictorial books Santa Monica Bay: Paradise by the Sea : A Pictorial History of Santa Monica, Venice, Marina Del Rey, Ocean Park, Pacific Palisades, Topanga & Malibu, and The California Pop-Up Book, which celebrates the city's unique architecture. See is also a feminist, and has said of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, "I was one of the persons whose lives that book changed."
When I started to write I was relatively old, and lived in California. So I was the wrong sex, wrong age, wrong coast. Luckily I was too ignorant to know it.
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Educator and award-winning novelist and essayist Carolyn See was one of the leading literary lights of Southern California. She taught creative writing at UCLA and Loyola Marymount College in Los Angeles, and reviewed books for a number of newspapers, particularly the Washington Post. She was best known for her novel "Golden Days" (1986) and her 1995 memoir "Dreaming, Hard Luck, and Good Times in America.".
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She was then with long-time companion John Espey from 1974 until his death in 2000.(wiki).
Writer
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Year
Status
Character
Barnaby Jones
1980
TV Series written by - 1 episode
Family
1979
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Self
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Status
Character
E! Mysteries & Scandals
2000
TV Series documentary
Herself - Novelist
Known for movies
Barnaby Jones (1980) as Writer
Family (1979) as Writer
E! Mysteries & Scandals (2000) as Herself - Novelist
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