Literature
Carol Emshwiller
1921–2019 · short-story writer, novelist
Nebula-winning avant-garde science-fiction writer, praised by Ursula K. Le Guin, who was born, studied and married in Ann Arbor on the edge of the Detroit region.
- Born
Ann Arbor, Michigan- Died
Durham, North Carolina
aged 97- Birth name
- Agnes Carolyn Fries
- Field
- Literature
01 / The Detroit story
The Detroit story
Emshwiller was born Agnes Carolyn Fries in Ann Arbor, the university town west of Detroit that belongs to the wider metro region. She earned a music degree at the University of Michigan in 1945, served with the Red Cross in Europe, then returned to Ann Arbor to attend art school, where she met and in 1949 married the artist and filmmaker Ed Emshwiller. The couple moved east, and she spent most of her life in New York, writing quirky, feminist, often fable-like stories and novels such as Carmen Dog and The Mount. Ursula K. Le Guin called her one of the strongest feminist voices in fiction; she won two Nebula Awards, the Philip K. Dick Award and a World Fantasy lifetime achievement award.
Highlights
- Nebula Awards for the stories Creature and I Live with You
- Philip K. Dick Award for The Mount (2002)
- World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2005)
- University of Michigan music graduate (1945)