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Carol Sklenicka is an American biographer, literary scholar, and essayist best known as the author of Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life, which remains the only comprehensive biography of short story writer Raymond Carver. Ten years later, Sklenicka published her "perceptive, elegantly written" Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer, a biography of the short-story writer and novelist Alice Adams. The New York Times Book Review listed both books on end-of-year best lists; Blake Bailey called Sklenicka a "lucid, scrupulous writer… [who] is prudent and appreciative in her assessment of Adams’s work."

Sklenicka "gives us the first full-length popular biography of brilliant novelist and short story writer Alice Adams. For decades, Adams rendered believably three-dimensional female characters in beautiful, cut-glass prose in venues like The New Yorker," noted a Christian Science Monitor reviewer in naming Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer one of that newspaper's top 10 books for the month.