Knapp, Caroline
From Astro-Databank
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| born on | 8 November 1959 at 23:15 (= 11:15 PM ) | ||
| Place | Boston MA, USA, 42n21, 71w03 | ||
| Timezone | EST h5w (is standard time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   16°01'   05°46 Asc. 21°25'
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Biography
American writer, the author of "Drinking, A Love Story," published by Dial Press May 1996 and on the best-seller list two months later, her personal story about years of being a closet alcoholic.
The Cambridge raised daughter of a psychiatrist and an artist, she was raised with privilege and intellect. She never heard her parents fight and never heard them say I love you. Her dad died in 1992 and her mom a year later. Caroline was anorexic through much of her 20's, a 5' 4" blonde. At about 13 or 14, she had her first drink, feeling very daring and smart. She graduated from Brown magna cum laude and went to work as a journalist, writing about organisms and sun-tans and being a grown-up. Obsessively neat and organized, she called herself the queen of lists. For years, Caroline was involved with two different men in a romantic life that was tormented, surreptitious and complicated.
Finally, in 2/20/1994, she checked into a rehab center. Four months later she felt able to meet life free of her drug-of-choice. She bought a new house in which she has never taken a bottle and goes to AA three-four times a week. When she was diagnosed with long cancer, she married her longtime companion, photographer Mark Morelli but died shortly after, May 2002, Cambridge, MA.
Relationships
- sibling relationship with Knapp, Rebecca (born 8 November 1959)
Events
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released May 1996 ("Drinking, A Love Story")
- Death of Father 1992
- Death of Mother 1993
- Misc. : Retain professional help 20 February 1994 (Checked into rehab)
- Death by Disease May 2002 (Cancer, age 42)
Source Notes
McEvoy quotes B.C.
Categories
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer
- Family : Childhood : Advantaged (Privileged)
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Eating Disorder (Anerexic)
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Abuse Alcohol
- Traits : Body : Size (5' 4")
- Traits : Body : Hair (Blonde)
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Institutionalized (Rehab)
- Personal : Birth : Twin, triplet, etc. (Non-identical twins)
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer (Terminal)
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Lung (Cancer)
