Carol Goodman
Author · 21 books
Carol Goodman is the author of The Lake of Dead Languages, The Seduction of Water, which won the Hammett Prize, The Widow's House, which won the Mary Higgins Clark Award and The Night Visitors, which won the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also the co-author, with her husband Lee Slonimsky, of the Watchtower fantasy trilogy. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Greensboro Review, Literal Latte, The Midwest Quarterly, and Other Voices. After graduation from Vassar College, where she majored in Latin, she taught Latin for several years in Austin, Texas. She then received an M.F.A. in fiction from the New School University. Goodman currently teaches literature and writing at The New School and SUNY New Paltz and lives with her family in the Hudson Valley.
Series
Books
Writers and Liars
2025
The Sea of Lost Girls
2020
The Night Visitors
2019
The Seduction of Water
2003
Return to Wyldcliffe Heights
2024
Arcadia Falls
2010
The Other Mother
2018
The Ghost Orchid
2006
The Sonnet Lover
2007
The Metropolitans
2017
The Drowning Tree
2004
The Stranger Behind You
2021
River Road
2016
The Bones of the Story
2023
The Night Villa
2008
Hawthorn
2015
The Lake of Dead Languages
2002
The Disinvited Guest
2022
The Widow's House
2017
Blythewood
2013
Ravencliffe
2014
