About Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and social alienation. She is best known as the author of the best-selling novel The Jane Austen Book Club (2004) that was adapted into a movie of the same name. == Biography == Fowler was born February 7, 1950, in Bloomington, Indiana, and spent the first eleven years of her life there. Her family then moved to Palo Alto, California. == Writing career == Fowler's first novel, Sarah Canary (1991), was published to critical acclaim. The novel involves a group of people in the Pacific Northwest alienated by nineteenth century America experiencing a peculiar kind of first contact in 1873. One character is Chinese American, another putatively mentally ill, a third a feminist, and lastly Sarah herself, a mysterious woman who is actually an extraterrestrial. Fowler meant for Sarah Canary to "read like a science fiction novel to a science fiction reader" and "like a mainstream novel to a mainstream reader." Fowler's intention was to leave room for the readers' own interpretation of the text. === Otherwise Award === Fowler collaborated with Pat Murphy to found the James Tiptree, Jr.
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