Carol Bly
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| Born |
April 16, 1930 Duluth, Minnesota (USA) |
| Died | December 21, 2007 (aged 77) |
| Occupation | Short story writer, essayist, nonfiction |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1970s–2000s |
Carol Bly (April 16, 1930 – December 21, 2007) was a teacher and an award-winning American author of short stories, essays, and nonfiction works on writing. Her work often featured Minnesota women who must identify the moral crisis that is facing their community or themselves and enact change through empathy, or opening one's eyes to the realities of the situation.
Carolyn McLean Bly was the youngest child and only daughter of Charles Russell and Mildred Washburn McLean of Duluth, Minnesota. She was raised in Duluth and Tryon, North Carolina, where she was sent to live with one of her father's sisters because her mother suffered from tuberculosis and was often away from the family being treated in sanitariums.
Bly's mother died in 1942, at a time when two of her older brothers were fighting in World War II. As a young teen, Bly worried for the safety of her family and often had nightmares about the Gestapo. Bly never lost her preoccupation with the damage that evil people could do.
After graduating from the Abbot Academy boarding school Bly received her B.A. in English and history from Wellesley College in 1951 and spent several years working in New York and Boston before undertaking graduate-level work at the University of Minnesota in 1954 and 1955.
While at Wellesley, Bly met Robert Elwood Bly on a blind date. They married in 1955 and moved to Robert Bly's family farm near the small town of Madison, Minnesota. At the time, the farm had no running water. The family lived a relatively simple life, and as she once told a disbelieving census taker, instead of owning a television they entertained themselves with their five thousand plus books. Their house was usually filled with visiting poets, including Donald Hall, James Wright, and Bill Holm, all of whom were asked to do their share of chores before Bly would feed them.
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