Author Biography

• Carol Lynn Pearson •

CAROL LYNN PEARSON is the best-selling author of more than thirty books and plays.  In her classic Goodbye, I Love You, she tells the story of her marriage to a homosexual man, their divorce, ongoing friendship, and her caring for him as he died of AIDS.  This story made her a guest on such programs as “Oprah” and “Good Morning, America.”  She has been featured in “People Magazine.”

Many of her poems have been widely reprinted in such places as the Ann Landers column and Chicken Soup for the Soul, as well as college literary textbooks.  The poems appear now in a compilation, Beginnings and Beyond.  Pearson has written numerous educational motion pictures, including the well-known “Cipher in the Snow,” as well as many plays and musicals, two commissioned by Robert Redford’s Sundance Theater.

Her one-woman play, “Mother Wove the Morning,” in which she plays sixteen women throughout history in search of the feminine divine, was performed over 300 times internationally and earned an award from “Booklist” as “one of the top 25 videos of the year.” 

Another favorite, Consider the Butterfly: Transforming Your Life Through Meaningful Coincidence tells forty-four of her personal stories, and was a finalist in the Inspiration/Spiritual category of the 2002 Independent Publishers Book Awards.

A series of seven inspirational books, “Fables for Our Times,” began with The Lesson, a look at life as a series of story problems, and includes, Will You Still Be My Daughter? and What Love Is.

Pearson’s prolific career as a writer, poet and performer has taken her all over the world as a performer, lecturer and speaker to a variety of organizations.

A new stage play will be premiered by Plan-B Theatre in Salt Lake City November 16-26, Facing East, the story of a Mormon couple dealing with the suicide of their gay son.

Pearson has an M.A. in theater, is the mother of four grown children, and lives in Walnut Creek, California.  You can visit her at www.clpearson.com.  

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