About Cynthia Carr
Born 1950. Cynthia Carr is an American journalist, biographer, writer, cultural critic and art historian.
Cynthia Carr is an American writer who has contributed to a number of periodicals, including The Village Voice and Artforum. She often publishes under the byline C. Carr. to 2003, where she specialized in arts coverage.
Books Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America (2007) On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (2012) Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz (2012) Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar (2024)
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship (2007)
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American writer
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Cynthia Carr was born in 1950.
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