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	Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Lion's Pride & Mephistopheles on Wall Street: A Life of Jay Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Karen Joy Fowler was born in Bloomington, Indiana on February 7, 1950.
		Karen Joy fowler’s family always held books in the highest regard, and some of Fowler’s fondest memories are of her father reading to her when she was a child.
		Fowler spent the next several years raising her children but by her 30th birthday was feeling like she also wanted to accomplish something less domestic.
	www.populistbooks.com /authors/f/Karen_Joy_Fowler/Karen_Joy_Fowler.htm (438 words)

	Locus Online: Karen Joy Fowler interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Karen Joy Fowler was born Karen Joy Burke, February 7, 1950 in Bloomington Indiana.
		She attended the University of California at Berkeley from 1968 to 1972 (''a very heated period,'' she notes), graduating with a B.A. In 1972, she married Hugh Sterling Fowler II and moved to Davis CA, where she received an M.A. at UC Davis in 1974.
		The Fowlers have two grown children, a son and a daughter.
	www.locusmag.com /1999/Issues/07/Fowler.html (1091 words)

	BookPage Interview May 2004: Karen Joy Fowler
		During a morning call to North Carolina where Fowler, a California resident, is writer-in-residence at a small college, the author's voice has a warmth suited to her Southern surroundings.
		The idea for the novel came to Fowler when she attended a friend's book signing and saw a sign that read "The Jane Austen Book Club." She assumed that it was a novel, and upon realizing it was, in fact, a book club, felt disappointed.
		Fowler says laughingly, "One of the things I love about Austen is that her work is so layered and complex that she just gets better every time I look at her.
	www.bookpage.com /0405bp/karen_joy_fowler.html (920 words)

	Printed Matter -- Karen Joy Fowler -- Page
		The section that Fowler read described a scene where Irini Doyle, the novel's heroine, is told the facts of life by her father (her mother, the more obvious choice for this delicate task, died years earlier).
		Fowler says the idea for that exchange came directly out of her experience many years ago telling her children the facts of life.
		Fowler is now working on her next novel, which is set in San Francisco and covers 100 years of history, from 1860 to 1960.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /go/gizmo/fowler1.html (764 words)

	Printed Matter -- Karen Joy Fowler 1998 -- Page
		Fowler said she writes in the fall and winter and teaches in the spring and summer.
		Fowler went to graduate school at UC Davis where she earned a master's degree in political science and met her future husband, Hugh.
		Fowler described an experience that took place in her childhood that went a long way toward making her a reader and then a writer.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~gizmo/1998/fowler2.html (942 words)

	Karen Joy Fowler OmniVisions Interview
		Since Karen seems to be running a bit late, we'll open the forum to questions and discussion till she gets here.
		Pat and Karen assigned fairy tales to their students and we got a bunch of good ones for our antho from that class.
		KJF: One of the things I enjoyed most about the Sweetheart Season was that, pretending it was all research, I listened to lots of old radio plays.
	www.hourwolf.com /chats/kjfowler.html (1886 words)

	Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler - read review
		Finishing the novel doesn't ensure that the reader will come to any pat conclusions; this is the sort of story in which there are nuances and hints, but not many hard facts, which led to a spirited discussion when my book group got back together.
		Karen Joy (Burke) Fowler was born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1950.
		Karen and her husband still live in Davis, California; their son and daughter have left for college and beyond.
	mostlyfiction.com /history/fowler_k.htm (954 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Jane Austen Book Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fowler is nowadays esteemed as a kind of magic realist in the Angela Carter mode -- see her novel Sarah Canary or the stories in Black Glass -- but longtime readers know that she comes out of science fiction.
		Fowler's art is of this sort -- she approaches her characters' various stories at a slant, builds toward emotional climaxes, then swerves away at the last moment.
		My one concession to the novel is that Karen Joy Fowler does have the occasional sentence or paragraph that sparkles with wit and insight, and there are echoes of Austen in some of her turns of phrase or the way she structures a passage.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0399151613?v=glance (3752 words)

	Ghost Signs - The Sweetheart Season : A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Karen Joy Fowler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Irini, who wields a fearsome throwing arm, strong from kneading bread dough, is the team's star center fielder and her successes, failures, and revelations on and off the ball field are endearingly recalled by her now grown daughter.
		Comment: Fowler's delightful second novel is the story of the magical, postwar summer of 1947 when the hometown soldiers never returned to the small town of Magrit and the young women formed a baseball team to find husbands - and prove the efficacy of breakfast cereal.
		Fowler's characters - her narrator's characters - are small town girls but larger than life.
	www.ghostsigns.com /item-0345416422.htm (1413 words)

	Karen Joy Fowler - Waukaway Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Karen Joy Fowler is, by far and away, My Favorite Stylist.
		Fowler is part of the SF community, but none of these stories are strictly science fiction or even speculative fiction.
		Fowler's delightful second novel is the story of the magical, postwar summer of 1947 when the hometown soldiers never returned to the small town of Magrit and the young women formed a baseball team to find husbands - and prove the efficacy of breakfast cereal.
	www.waukawaysprings.com /store/authorsearch_Karen%20Joy%20Fowler/mode_books (432 words)

	pseudopodium: Karen Joy Fowler
		Let it be theirs to conceive the delight of joy born again fresh out of great terror, the rapture of rescue from peril, the wondrous reprieve from dread, the fruition of return.
		Fowler's choice of protagonist neatly solves another generic problem as well, that being how to convey the alienness of another time or culture with the techniques of realistic fiction.
		Fowler instead leverages the insight that alienation from one's mundane surroundings is a familiar shared experience (albeit not one that's necessarily taken for granted).
	www.pseudopodium.org /search.cgi?Karen+Joy+Fowler (6859 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
		Karen Joy Fowler, A PEN/Faulkner and Dublin IMPAC nominee, is the author of Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season, Black Glass: Short Fictions, and Sister Noon.
		Fowler, born on February 7, 1950, lived in Bloomington, Indiana--where her father was a professor of psychology--until she was eleven years old.
		Fowler considers her second novel, The Sweetheart Season, to be "a romantic comedy with historical and fantastical elements."
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/sarah_canary2.asp (2382 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Sister Noon" by Karen Joy Fowler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Fowler's novel, voodoo goddesses, high-society villains and repressed do-gooders tangle over an agitated orphan named Jenny whose mysterious origins are at the center of the book's secrets.
		Fowler so expertly evokes the sensational mood of a 19th century mystery that, were it not for her unmistakably critical voice -- her mischievous insight and cold, hard wit -- "Sister Noon" might itself have laid on the floor beside Lizzie's bed.
		Fowler has also crafted a thoughtful social critique of turn-of-the-century San Francisco, proving that even in the fresh lands of the American West, old ideas die hard and only some Americans can truly begin anew.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2001/05/21/fowler (806 words)

	Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Karen Joy Fowler has found her way from the details of what we take to be our history, our past, to the legend that is our true present."
		Karen Joy Fowler, born on February 7, 1950, lived in Bloomington, Indiana--where her father was a professor of psychology--until she was eleven years old.
		Fowler considers her second novel, The Sweetheart Season, to be "a romantic comedy with historical and fantastical elements." In 1991, Fowler, along with science fiction writer Pat Murphy, created the James Tiptree Jr.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0345426533&view=rg (1367 words)

	FREE PRESS/MAGIC 105.1 BOOK CLUB: Welcome to the world of Jane Austen
		Therefore, "The Jane Austen Book Club," by Karen Joy Fowler, is so obviously for you that I scarcely need mention that it's the May selection of the Free Press/Magic 105.1 Book Club to have you rushing out for your copy.
		Fowler's story of a book club that reads Jane Austen is so clever and so delightfully written that you don't need to know anything about Jane Austen to love it.
		Fowler also includes the notes Austen made of her family's reactions to drafts of her novels, which are drily hilarious, and a synopsis of the critical responses to Austen's work.
	www.freep.com /features/books/salij2_20040502.htm (1110 words)

	Powell's Books - The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
		"Fowler's fifth novel (after PEN/Faulkner award finalist Sister Noon) features her trademark sly wit, quirky characters and digressive storytelling, but with a difference: this one is book club — ready, complete with mock-serious 'questions for discussion' posed by the characters themselves.
		Fowler's wit, the way she renders the pratfalls of emotion and desire...she comes closest to her model.
		Karen Joy Fowler, a PEN/Faulkner and Dublin IMPAC nominee, is the author of the novels Sister Noon, Sarah Canary, and The Sweetheart Season, as well as the story collection Black Glass.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio/0399151613 (771 words)

	Sweetheart Season Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Karen Joy Fowler's first novel, Sarah Canary, is a marvel, an amazing, original novel about aliens, of all sorts, in the 1870's American West.
		Categorization of Fowler's work in a generic sense has always been difficult: perhaps a better word would be pointless.
		That said, most of her stories, for me, read best as SF or fabulations, but she is clearly enough a writer who appeals to non-SF readers as well.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/sweethrt.htm (538 words)

	Locus Online: Karen Joy Fowler Interview Excerpts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Karen Joy Fowler, born Karen Joy Burke in Bloomington, Indiana, attended the University of California at Berkeley from 1968 to 1972 -- the tumultuous years -- graduating with a BA in Political Science, and earned an MA in the same subject at UC Davis in 1974.
		Her first genre publication, "Praxis", appeared in Asimov's in 1985, and in 1986 she published collection Artificial Things and was nominated for the Campbell Award for best new writer (which she won in 1987).
		She lives in Davis, California with husband Hugh Sterling Fowler II (married 1972).
	www.locusmag.com /2004/Issues/12Fowler.html (954 words)

	Printed Matter -- Karen Joy Fowler on Tiptree -- Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fowler, a science fiction writer, described several science fiction novels she read before she and other judges chose the winner.
		Fowler says lots of mainstream publishers try desperately to distance themselves from science fiction, but the genre borders are becoming increasingly blurred.
		The adjective Fowler used most often to describe these books was "funny" as in amusing and clever, not weird.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /go/gizmo/1997/tiptree1.html (612 words)

	Game Night
		Karen Joy Fowler's "Game Night at the Fox and Goose" explores an alternate history that is a subtler version of the rhetorical conceit Woolf offers in her looking-glass riff.
		Fowler, with this alternate history, is making the invisible-- i.e., gendered behavior and codes, which often invisibly privilege men-- visible.
		Fowler's alternate history shows us that tolerance (or intolerance) to adultery has always made a substantial difference to the material constitution of our world whether we knew it or not.
	ltimmel.home.mindspring.com /gamenight.html (3356 words)

	Karen Joy Fowler
		"Karen Joy Fowler's 'The Elizabeth Complex,'" by L. Timmel Duchamp
		Hugo nominee, 1988: "The Faithful Companion at Forty" by Karen Joy Fowler, published in Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine, July 1987
		Karen often teaches at the Clarion and Clarion West Writers Workshops.
	www.sfwa.org /members/Fowler/KJFInfo.html (855 words)

	Kathleen Ann Goonan reviews SARAH CANARY
		Sarah Canary, Karen Joy Fowler's first novel, avowedly concerns itself with the nature of perception.
		Fowler has given us such a fine piece of work, one which manages to remain thoroughly entertaining in spite of the powerful and abstract nature of the subtext, that this is enough.
		Fowler has masterfully embedded her ideas about perception within a rousing, completely satisfying entertainment.
	www.goonan.com /sarah.html (2086 words)

	USATODAY.com - This 'Book Club' stays true to Jane Austen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Karen Joy Fowler salts her modern novel of manners with enough Austen references to please the most dedicated Austen fans.
		Fowler cleverly uses the diversity of her characters to survey their circles.
		Fowler's artful homage to Austen's work dawns on the reader gradually.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2004-04-21-jane-austen-book-club_x.htm (589 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Observer review: The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
		Karen Joy Fowler takes on one of the immortals in The Jane Austen Book Club.
		During a cleaning spree, Prudie stares down on the scalp of the teenage nerd who is trying to fix her computer, sees flakes of dandruff and fights 'an impulse to dust him'.
		But, like some impulsive literary sale shopper, Fowler is too unsteadyingly weighed down by all the delightful purchases she has made at the Jane Austen Mega Store to spend the time she needs on plot and, especially, on character.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1323792,00.html (541 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler, reviewed by The New Republic Online
		Fowler creates a childhood for Prudie that is so unique in its insanity that I wanted a whole novel about her, her crazy mother, her achingly perfect husband, and her issues with lusting after the students in her class.
		Yet Fowler drops this fascinating woman, plods along with the rest of the book club's banalities, and resolves Prudie's story line so unsatisfactorily (she practically sighs, "I guess I do appreciate my husband after all," and is never really heard from again) that I almost tore the book in two.
		I can only assume that Fowler's book is doing so well because the title contains the words "book club." Her book is cheeky and cutesy and terribly shrewd.
	www.powells.com /review/2004_07_08 (1377 words)

	Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler, 0786235497, Lowest Book Price Finder
		Hugo Award winning author Karen Joy Fowler ("Sarah Canary", 1991) blends fact and fantasy in her bewitching third novel, "Sister Noon." Imagery, minute historical data, and dazzling prose abound in this story set against San Francisco's Gilded Age.
		Nonetheless, Lizzie is advised by Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant that she can do anything she pleases, "You don't have to be the same person your whole life." This is apt tutelage from one who knows as that may be precisely what Mrs.
		Fowler, an author with practiced eye and arresting pen, has constructed a tale that absorbs, amuses, and sometimes skewers the complacent.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/0786235497 (449 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Sarah Canary (Ballantine Reader's Circle) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fowler skillfully arranges characters and plot against a backdrop of American history, which becomes inspiration for her satiric wit.
		Although her unsentimental view is refreshing, Fowler overstates her case in the final chapter, for the reader already sees the unflattering reflection of racism and sexism in contemporary America.
		Perceptions are the focus of the book, but Fowler also touches on the cultural differences of different types of people, prejudices, superstitions, and much more.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345416449?v=glance (1906 words)

	The Elizabeth Complex
		This story gives us Karen Joy Fowler at her finest and most daring.
		It is Fowler's voice, though, that can metaphorically take a razor to the Fathers' Law and smile and charm and please us with its grace as it does so.
		It is Fowler who sees the "complex" and identifies the function that assimilates the fathers into Fathers.
	ltimmel.home.mindspring.com /eliz.html (542 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Sister Noon \| Karen Joy Fowler
		U.S. The fiction of Karen Joy Fowler has been hailed as "powerfully imagined and delightfully readable" (The Washington Post).
		Karen Joy Fowler's most masterful achievement, Sister Noon, is a lush, stylistically daring, brilliantly realized portrait of a vanished era and an extraordinary woman that will shimmer and haunt readers long after the final page is turned.
		Karen Joy Fowler is the author of two previous novels, Sarah Canary and The Sweetheart Season, both New York Times Notable Books, as well as Black Glass, a short story collection.
	www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/sister_noon.html (872 words)

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