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Ron Carlson
BIO
Ron Carlson grew up in Salt Lake City. He is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently AT THE JIM BRIDGER and THE HOTEL EDEN, a New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. He is a professor of English at Arizona State University. He plays infield, mainly second base, and bats right and throws right.
AUTHOR TALK
June, 2003
Ron Carlson is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently AT THE JIM BRIDGER and THE HOTEL EDEN, a New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. In this interview learn more about Carlson's background, as well as his personal interests and how he describes his latest novel THE SPEED OF LIGHT, which is his first for young readers.
Q: Where did you grow up?
RC: The old west side of Salt Lake City in a fun neighborhood of vacant lots and railroad tracks and the river.
Q: What was your childhood ambition?
RC: Buy an old jeep, get some maps, head out.
Q: What is your favorite sports team?
RC: The Salt Lake City Bees (a baseball team --- long gone), the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Q: What book would you take on a desert island?
RC: MYSTERIOUS ISLAND by Jules Verne! FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley.
Q: What is your favorite city?
RC: Dutch John, Utah.
Q: What is your favorite CD?
RC: "Freewheelin" by Bob Dylan.
Q: Where do you write?
RC: In my office at home on a computer.
Q: What qualities do you most admire?
RC: Calmness, a sense of humor, the ability to listen, table manners.
Q: What do you do to relax?
RC: Jog, read, walk, fish.
Q: What classic/contemporary author would you most like to have dinner with?
RC: Mark Twain
Q: What classic/contemporary fictional character would you most like to date?
RC: Tonya Harding. Is she fictional? If not, then Juliet.
Q: What is the place where you are most happy?
RC: In the mountains of Utah, at my cabin there, above the town of Dutch John.
Q: What has been your most embarrassing moment?
RC: Third grade --- unable to make it to the bathroom after being elected class vice-president, an election day problem.
Q: What adjectives would you use to describe your latest book?
RC: Inventive, tender, funny, simple, fresh.
Q: Do you have a life motto?
RC: Make haste to be kind.
© Copyright 2003, Ron Carlson. All rights reserved.
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