Jonathan Carroll

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Jonathan Carroll (born 26 January 1949 in New York City) is an American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction sets the supernatural and the fantastic inside ordinary lives. He is the son of the screenwriter Sidney Carroll and the actress and lyricist June Carroll, studied at Rutgers University and the University of Virginia, and moved to Vienna, Austria, in the 1970s, where he taught and where he still lives. The Land of Laughs (1980) was his first novel. It was followed by Voice of Our Shadow and many others, among them Outside the Dog Museum, which won a British Fantasy Award, and The Wooden Sea. His story "Friend's Best Man" won a World Fantasy Award, and his collection The Panic Hand won the Bram Stoker Award for best collection. He has also won a Pushcart Prize and two French fantasy awards, and his work has been published in more than thirty languages.

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• The Land of Laughs (1980) · The Land of Laughs Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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