Carolyn Ives Gilman

Missouri County: St. Louis

Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Essays, Science Fiction/Fantasy

Audience: Adult

Published Works:

Books: Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide, Smithsonian Books, 2003; Halfway Human, Avon, 1998, The Grand Portage Story, MHS Press, 1992; The Way to Independence: Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family 1840-1920 (with Mary Jane Schneider), MHS Press, 1987; Where Two Worlds Meet: The Great Lakes Fur Trade, Minnesota Historical Society, 1982; The Red River Trails (with Rhoda Gilman and Deborah M. Stultz), MHS Press, 1978; The Northern Expeditions of Stephen H. Long (with Lucile M. Kane and June D. Holmquist), MHS Press, 1978.

Short Fiction: “The Invisible Hand Rolls the Dice,” Interzone, October 2001. Reprinted in Tales of the Unanticipated, April 2002; “The Real Thing,” Fantasy and Science Fiction, July, 2001. Reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Press, 2002; “Dreamseed,” Fantasy and Science Fiction, October/November 2000; “Frost Painting,” Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, ed. Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel, White Wolf, 1997. Reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois, St. Martin’s Press, 1998; “Candle in a Bottle,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October/November 1996; “Fade Out,” River Styx 44 1995. Reprinted as “The More Things Change” in Tales of the Unanticipated, Fall/Winter 1995-96; “Random Noise,” Realms of Fantasy, April 1995; “The Wild Ships of Fairny,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1994; “Burning Bush,” Universe 2, Bantam Books, 1992; “Lost Road,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1992; “The Honeycrafters,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October/November 1991. Reprinted in Hugo and Nebula Anthology 1993, ed. Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications, 1993, and The Best From Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology, ed. Edward L. Ferman and Kristine K. Rusch, St. Martin's Press, 1994; “Wordworld,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1991; “Glass Angel,” Interzone, December 1990; “Angels Alone,’ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1990; “The Gamemaker,” Full Spectrum II, Bantam/Doubleday, 1989; “Circus Geneticus,” The Leading Edge, Winter 1988; “The Language of the Sea,” Writers of the Future Vol. 3, Bridge Publications, 1987; “The Trial of Victor Genovese,” Tales of the Unanticipated, Fall, 1986.

Nonfiction articles: “A World of Women,” Lewis & Clark: New Perspectives, a special issue of Gateway Heritage, Fall 2003-Winter 2004; “Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara,” in Dictionary of American History, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.“The Forensic Conservator and the Science of Lewis and Clark,” Gateway Heritage, Winter 1999-2000; “A Day in the Life: The Gens Libres,” Minnesota History, Winter 1998-99; “The Culture That Was Supposed to Die,” Hennepin County History, Summer 1988; “The Way to Independence: An Exhibition at the Minnesota Historical Society,” American Indian Art Magazine, February 1988; “Coming Home,” On the Reservation, an issue of Roots, Spring 1986; "Grand Portage Ojibway Indians Give British Medals to Historical Society," in Minnesota History, Spring, 1980; “Collection with a Mission: Frances Densmore’s Chippewa Artifacts,” Minnesota Archaeologist, February 1980; “Minnesota Patchwork,” with Nicholas Westbrook, Minnesota History, Summer 1979; “John Goodricke and His Variable Stars,” Sky and Telescope, November 1978; “Perceptions of the Prairie: Cultural Contrasts on the Red River Trails,” Minnesota History, Fall 1978; “Jonathan Carver: The Story of an Unlikely Explorer,” Roots, Spring 1976; “Journal of a Voyage, 1766-67, by James Stanley Goddard,” The Journals of Jonathan Carver and Related Documents, 1766-1770, ed. John Parker, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1976.

Have any works been translated into other languages? Yes/No

Awards: Missouri Governor’s Humanities Award, 2004; Missouri Conference on History Award for Best Book of 2003 for Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide; Finalist for Nebula Award by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for “The Honeycrafters,” 1992; Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for The Grand Portage Story, 1992; Outstanding Academic Book of the Year award from Choice magazine (Association of College and Research Libraries) for The Way to Independence, 1988; Award of Merit from American Association for State and Local History for The Way to Independence, 1988; Second prize in Writers of the Future Contest for “The Language of the Sea,” Spring, 1986; Award of Merit from American Association for State and Local History for Where Two Worlds Meet: The Great Lakes Fur Trade, 1983; Theodore C. Blegen Awards for best staff-written article in Minnesota History, 1978 and 1980.

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