Author: Josephine Carson
Alternate names: Josephine Carson Rider
Born: 21 January 1919
Died: 2 November 2002
Bio: Carson was born in Tulsa and attended Tulsa University and the University of California in Los Angeles. She lived in New York City, in Mexico, in Los Angeles and in the San Francisco area. She worked in libraries and bookstores, did fashion modeling, worked in advertising, medical research and public relations. She taught writing at Bennington College, San Francisco State, and UC Berkeley.