The Circus Pig and the Kaiser is Carolyn’s debut novel. She is currently working on a forthcoming novel about the French Resistance entitled The Night Belongs to the Maquis. She fuses her extensive research background with her lifelong involvement in theatre to create unique and lifelike characters in compelling historical settings.
The wide-ranging research that Carolyn brings to her novels draws on her skills developed throughout a career in investment analysis and corporate governance. She earned her B.A. degree at Barnard College and her Ph.D. at New York University in the fields of economics and public finance. She is also an accomplished author of two nonfiction investment books, Getting Listed on Wall Street and Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance: Creating Long-Term Corporate Value, published by McGraw Hill/Business One Irwin.
Throughout the years, Carolyn has dedicated herself to the creative arts. Her plays have been produced at such venues as Steppenwolf in Chicago and the John Houseman Theatre in N.Y.C. as well as at the Church Street Theatre in D.C. She created the play Censored to celebrate the First Amendment – bringing to life banned books, art and other cultural institutions that have been repressed in the United States.
Carolyn has also directed such plays as Deposing the White House, which she moved from Ensemble Studio Theatre in N.Y.C. to the Church Street Theatre in D.C. In addition, she choreographed and directed numerous plays in the Washington, D.C. area, including at the Source Theatre. As a choreographer, she created works for the D.C. City Ballet and was the dance consultant for the wedding sequence in Francis Ford Coppola’s film Gardens of Stone.
Carolyn is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, The Authors Guild and a Fellow of the RSA in London (The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce).
She lives in the Berkshires with her husband, with whom she shares a passion for offshore sailing and oil painting.
