Carol Bergman's short stories and literary nonficiton have been published in
Willow Review, Onion Review, A Room of One's Own, Absinthe Literary Review, The
Bridge, Potpourri, Epiphany and many other publications in the US and the UK.
Objects of Desire, appearing in Lilith and Whetstone Literary Review was
nominated for a 1999 Pushcart Prize in nonfiction. Another Day in Paradise;
International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories, was published by Orbis
Books (US/Canada) and Earthscan Books (UK/Commowealth) in October, 2003 and was
nominated for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize.
Her articles, essays, reviews and interviews have appeared
in numerous publications in the UK and the US including The New York Times, The
Times (of London), The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily News Magazine, The
Amsterdam News, Newsday, Cosmopolitan, Woman's World, Family Circle, Art Times,
Cineaste, and Salon.com.
She is the author of two film biographies (Mae West &
Sidney Poitier) and the ghostwriter of Captain Kangaroo's autobiography, Growing
Up Happy (Doubleday, 1989). A memoir, Searching for Fritzi, was published in
1999. A book of novellas, Sitting for Klimt, was published in 2007 and has received the Barnes & Noble/ iUniverse Editor’s Choice, Publisher’s Choice and Reader’s Choice awards. It is permanently installed in the Neue Galerie Bookstore. Her first murder mystery, Say Nothing, was published in 2010.
She is one of the founding faculty of Gotham Writers' Workshop and has
been teaching in the NYU writing program since 1997.
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