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Karen Joy Fowler

Author of The Jane Austen Book Club

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Karen Joy Fowler is the author of several novels and short story collections. Her works include Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season, Sister Noon, and The Jane Austen Book Club. She has received numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award in 1999 for Black Glass, the World Fantasy Award in 2011 for What I Didn't See, and the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. This same title was nominated for The Man Booker Prize for Best Novel in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Jane Austen Book Club… (more)
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Works by Karen Joy Fowler
The Jane Austen Book Club 6,256 copies, 191 reviews
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 3,501 copies, 235 reviews
Sarah Canary 732 copies, 23 reviews
Wit's End 462 copies, 25 reviews
Booth 415 copies, 26 reviews
Sister Noon 282 copies, 5 reviews
The Sweetheart Season 245 copies, 7 reviews
What I Didn't See: Stories 222 copies, 9 reviews
Black Glass : Short Fictions 208 copies, 6 reviews
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip… (Editor; Contributor; Introduction) 172 copies, 5 reviews
Artificial Things 164 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (Editor) 152 copies, 5 reviews
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2: Stories for Men, Women, and the Rest… (Editor) 98 copies, 3 reviews
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories about Sex and… (Editor) 94 copies, 2 reviews
The Science of Herself Plus ... 71 copies, 5 reviews
80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin (Editor) 36 copies, 1 review
Standing Room Only [short story] 13 copies
Peripheral Vision 13 copies
The War of the Roses 12 copies
The Dark [short story] 9 copies
Always [short story] 9 copies, 2 reviews
What I Didn't See [short story] 8 copies
The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things 7 copies
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 4: Subversive Stories about Sex and… (Editor) 6 copies
The Faithful Companion at Forty [short story] 6 copies
Private Grave 9 (Author) 5 copies
Younger Women [short story] 5 copies
The Pelican Bar [short fiction] 5 copies
Black Glass [novelette] 5 copies
King Rat 4 copies
The Elizabeth Complex 4 copies
Lieserl 4 copies
The Last Worders [short story] 4 copies
Face Value [short story] 3 copies
The Marianas Islands 3 copies
Familiar Birds [short fiction] 3 copies
Praxis [short story] 3 copies
Halfway People 3 copies
Lily Red [short story] 3 copies
The Case of the Imaginary Detective 2 copies
Comme ce monde est joli [collection] 2 copies
Mota 2002 Truth: An Annual Anthology of Fine Fiction (Editor; Introduction; Introduction) 2 copies
Heartland [short story] 2 copies, 1 review
Letters from Home [short story] 2 copies
The Black Fairy's Curse [short story] 2 copies
The Travails [short story] 2 copies
The Gate of Ghosts [short story] 2 copies
Game Night at the Fox and Goose [short story] 2 copies, 1 review
Booth's Ghost [short story] 2 copies
Her smoke rose up from supper 1 copy
Contention [short story] 1 copy
Science of Herself (Outspoken Authors Book 12) 1 copy, 4 reviews
The Reef Builders [short fiction] 1 copy
Estamos Todos Completamente Transtornados (Em Portugues do Brasil) 1 copy
Autograph, S.F. Writer, Signed Collector Card (Mine) (3) 1 copy
The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man [short story] 1 copy
Persephone of the Crows 1 copy
The Brew [short story] 1 copy
The View from Venus [novelette] 1 copy
The Jane Austen Book Club | Pride and Prejudice 1 copy
Duplicity [short story] 1 copy
Sarah Canary and the Mermaid [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
Shimabara [short story] 1 copy
Go Back [short story] 1 copy
2007 1 copy
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Also by Karen Joy Fowler
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Introduction, some editions) 3,758 copies, 27 reviews
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (Contributor) 1,435 copies, 19 reviews
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (Contributor) 934 copies, 24 reviews
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters (Introduction) 874 copies, 51 reviews
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (Contributor) 750 copies, 19 reviews
Women Who Read Are Dangerous (Foreword, some editions) 599 copies, 11 reviews
Black Swan, White Raven (Contributor) 565 copies, 6 reviews
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (Contributor) 418 copies, 7 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (Contributor) 397 copies, 4 reviews
The Big Book of Science Fiction (Contributor) 369 copies, 6 reviews
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction,… (Consultant) 301 copies, 5 reviews
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (Contributor) 299 copies, 14 reviews
Happily Ever After (Contributor) 285 copies, 2 reviews
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (Contributor) 260 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (Contributor) 236 copies, 1 review
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (Contributor) 232 copies, 9 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (Contributor) 232 copies, 2 reviews
Flirting with Pride & Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original… (Contributor) 231 copies, 8 reviews
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (Contributor) 220 copies, 11 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (Contributor) 218 copies, 1 review
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of… (Contributor) 210 copies, 2 reviews
Alternate Empires (What Might Have Been, Vol. 1) (Contributor) 205 copies, 3 reviews
Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold (Contributor) 203 copies, 4 reviews
Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists (Contributor) 194 copies, 2 reviews
Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the… (Contributor) 194 copies, 2 reviews
The Secret History of Science Fiction (Contributor) 192 copies, 6 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection (Contributor) 190 copies, 1 review
Year's Best SF 13 (Contributor) 184 copies, 4 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (Author) 183 copies, 2 reviews
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (Contributor) 172 copies, 6 reviews
What Might Have Been, Volumes 1 & 2: Alternate Empires, Alternate Heroes (Contributor) 169 copies, 2 reviews
Trampoline: An Anthology (Contributor) 164 copies, 3 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection (Contributor) 163 copies, 4 reviews
Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales (Contributor) 160 copies, 4 reviews
Full Spectrum 3 (Contributor) 159 copies
Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (Contributor) 156 copies, 4 reviews
The Jane Austen Book Club [2007 film] (Original novel) 152 copies, 4 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection (Contributor) 152 copies
Vanishing Acts: A Science Fiction Anthology (Contributor) 145 copies, 1 review
Future on Ice (Contributor) 141 copies, 1 review
Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn (Contributor) 140 copies, 1 review
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (Contributor, some editions) 132 copies, 4 reviews
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology (Contributor) 127 copies, 6 reviews
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four (Contributor) 122 copies, 2 reviews
Alien Contact (Contributor) 121 copies, 3 reviews
Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn: Volume 2 (Contributor) 120 copies, 1 review
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume I (Contributor) 119 copies
Wicked Wonders (Introduction) 119 copies, 10 reviews
The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (Contributor) 105 copies, 4 reviews
The Best of Crank! (Author) 98 copies, 1 review
Nebula Awards 33 (Contributor) 95 copies, 1 review
Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 (Contributor) 89 copies, 8 reviews
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (Contributor) 83 copies, 1 review
Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (Contributor) 80 copies
Paragons: Twelve Master Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Crafts (Contributor) 79 copies
Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy (Contributor) 75 copies
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 (Contributor) 73 copies
Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling (Introduction) 73 copies
Full Spectrum 5 (Contributor) 70 copies, 1 review
In the Field of Fire (Contributor) 66 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 Edition (Contributor) 66 copies
Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology (Contributor) 65 copies
The Best of Subterranean (Contributor) 64 copies, 6 reviews
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition (Contributor) 62 copies, 2 reviews
New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and… (Contributor) 60 copies, 2 reviews
The Apes of Wrath (Contributor) 60 copies, 2 reviews
Attack of the Jazz Giants: and Other Stories (Introduction) 58 copies, 1 review
Collected Stories (Introduction) 58 copies, 3 reviews
Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 2 (Contributor) 56 copies
Skin of the Soul (Contributor) 53 copies, 1 review
Interzone: The 3rd Anthology (Contributor) 49 copies, 1 review
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings (Contributor) 49 copies, 2 reviews
Nebula Awards 27: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy… (Contributor) 49 copies
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume VII (Contributor) 49 copies, 1 review
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite (Contributor) 49 copies
Nebula Awards 26: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy… (Contributor) 47 copies, 1 review
David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination (Contributor) 44 copies
Powers: Secret Histories: A Bibliography (Contributor) 43 copies, 1 review
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (Contributor) 43 copies
The Unicorn Anthology (Contributor) 40 copies, 4 reviews
Crucified Dreams (Contributor) 38 copies
Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism (Contributor) 38 copies
And the Angels Sing: Stories (Foreword) 34 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2018 Edition (Contributor) 33 copies
The Great Silence (Foreword, some editions; Introduction) 32 copies, 2 reviews
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition (Contributor) 32 copies
A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales About the Christ (Contributor) 28 copies, 2 reviews
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (Contributor) 27 copies
Neat Sheets: The Poetry of James Tiptree, Jr. (Foreword) 25 copies
Terminal Visions (Foreword) 25 copies, 1 review
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy (Contributor) 24 copies, 3 reviews
Interzone: The 5th Anthology (Contributor) 22 copies, 1 review
Isaac Asimov's Robots (Contributor) 22 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1991, Vol. 80, No. 6 (Contributor) 21 copies
Thief of Lives (Introduction, some editions) 21 copies, 2 reviews
Letters from Home (Author) 20 copies
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology (Contributor) 18 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 34 • March 2013 (Contributor) 17 copies, 2 reviews
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 31, No. 4 & 5 [April/May 2007] (Contributor) 17 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 21, No. 8 [August 1997] (Contributor) 17 copies, 1 review
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 12, No. 7 [July 1988] (Contributor) 16 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1985, Vol. 68, No. 6 (Contributor) 14 copies
Because I Love Her (Contributor) 14 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 11, No. 7 [July 1987] (Contributor) 14 copies
We, Robots (Contributor) 14 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 14, No. 7 [July 1990] (Contributor) 13 copies
Virtually Now: Stories of Science, Technology, and the Future (Contributor) 12 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 6 [June 2009] (Contributor) 12 copies, 1 review
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 8 [August 1986] (Contributor) 11 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1986, Vol. 70, No. 3 (Contributor) 11 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 13, No. 12 [December 1989] (Author) 11 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 10 [October 1985] (Contributor) 11 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 12 [December 1985] (Contributor) 11 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 22 • March 2012 (Contributor) 10 copies, 1 review
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 66 • November 2015 (Contributor) 10 copies
Das Science Fiction Jahr 1994. Ein Jahrbuch für den Science Fiction Leser (Contributor) 10 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 3 [March 1985] (Contributor) 10 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1986, Vol. 71, No. 5 (Contributor) 10 copies, 1 review
Making History: Classic Alternate History Stories (Contributor) 8 copies
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 20 (Contributor) 8 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 14 • July 2011 (Contributor) 7 copies
I mondi del possibile (Contributor) 7 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy: Volume One (Contributor) 7 copies
Loncon 3 : The 72nd World Science Fiction Convention 7 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 41, No. 5 & 6 [May/June 2017] (Contributor) 7 copies
Heyne Jahresband Science Fiction 1989. (Contributor) 7 copies
Ikarus 2001. Best of Science Fiction. (Contributor) 7 copies
Second Hand Planet. Internationale Science Fiction Erzählungen. (Contributor) 7 copies
Spirits Unwrapped (Contributor) 7 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 77 • October 2016 (Contributor) 6 copies
Wassermans Roboter (Contributor) 6 copies
Die Pilotin. Internationale Science-Fiction-Erzählungen (Contributor) 6 copies
Interzone 042 (Contributor) 5 copies, 1 review
Futurs tous azimuts (Contributor) 5 copies
Subterranean Magazine Winter 2014 (Contributor) 5 copies
Papa Godzilla (Contributor) 4 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 109 (June 2019) (Contributor) 4 copies, 1 review
The Roots of Fantasy: Myth, Folklore & Archetype (Contributor) 4 copies
StarShipSofa Stories Volume 3 (Contributor) 4 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazin 36. Folge (Contributor) 4 copies
Interzone 023 (Contributor) 4 copies, 1 review
Territoires de l'inquiétude. 7 (Contributor) 3 copies
Omni Magazine November 1989 (Contributor) 2 copies
Die Sterne sind weiblich (Contributor) 2 copies
Subterranean Magazine Summer 2011 (Contributor) 2 copies
Zärtlich war die Zukunft: Liebesgeschichten aus der Welt von morgen (Contributor) 2 copies
Science Fiction Eye #10, June 1992 (Contributor) 1 copy
Science Fiction Eye #07, August 1990 (Contributor) 1 copy
Tales of the Unanticipated 15, Fall / Winter 1995 / 1996 (Contributor) 1 copy
Science Fiction Eye #08, Winter 1991 (Contributor) 1 copy
Das Blei der Zeit (Contributor) 1 copy
Crank! Science Fiction • Fantasy, Winter 1996 (No. 6) (Contributor) 1 copy
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 124 (September 2020) (Contributor) 1 copy
Mondaugen. Internationale Science Fiction Erzählungen. (Contributor) 1 copy
Millemondi Inverno 1992 (Contributor) 1 copy
Locus Nr.492 2002.01 (Contributor) 1 copy
Rod Serling's the Twilight Zone Magazine 1987 01 January-February (Contributor) 1 copy
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1950-02-07
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA (birth)
Palo Alto, California, USA
Davis, California, USA
Santa Cruz, California, USA
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University of California, Berkeley (Political Science)
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science fiction writer
fantasy writer
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Wendy Weil
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John W. Campbell Award (1987)
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