Carola Dibbell (born April 4, 1945)[1][2] is an American music journalist and author.

Carola Dibbell
Dibbell in 2015
Dibbell in 2015
Born (1945-04-04) April 4, 1945 (age 79)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Music journalist
  • author
Alma materRadcliffe College
GenreScience fiction
Spouse
(m. 1974)
Children1
Website
caroladibbell.com

Biography

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Dibbell was born in New York City and grew up in Greenwich Village.[3] She attended Hunter College High School and is a graduate of Radcliffe College.

Her short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, and other publications.[3] She has also written music and film reviews, as well as articles about children's media, for the Village Voice.[3] Her first book, the sci-fi novel The Only Ones, was published by Two Dollar Radio in 2015. The Washington Post's Nancy Hightower named it one of the best science fiction books of 2015.[4]

Dibbell married music critic Robert Christgau, who introduced her to music criticism in 1974.[3][5] They adopted a daughter, Nina Dibbell Christgau.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Obenauf, Eric (April 5, 2015). "Human Voices: Carola Dibbell Interviewed".
  2. ^ Lethem, Jonathan; Dettmar, Kevin (23 May 2017). Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z. Library of America. ISBN 9781598535327.
  3. ^ a b c d "About Carola Dibbell". Caroladibbell.com. Archived from the original on 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  4. ^ Hightower, Nancy (18 November 2015). "Best science fiction and fantasy books of 2015". The Washington Post.
  5. ^ Stevens, Dana (4 March 2015). "Beautifully, Profoundly, Naively, Contradictorily, Romantically, Kinetically, Jokily, Cockily, Fearfully, Drunkenly, Goofily, Impudently". Slate.
  6. ^ Jaffe Robins, Sonia (April 29, 2015). "PW Talks with Carola Dibbell". Publishers Weekly.
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