Carroll was innate within New York City to Sidney Carroll, a screenwriter whose credits involved The Hustler, & June (née Sillman), an actress & lyrist world health organization appeared within many Broadway shows and ii films. His parents were Jewish but Carroll was raised in the Christian Science religion. The self-described "troubled teenager," he finished primary education at a Loomis School withinside Connecticut & graduated by using honors from either Rutgers University in 1971, marrying creative person Beverly Schreiner in the equivalent month. He relocated to Vienna, Austria a few years later & began teaching at a American International School, and has manufactured his range in Austria ever since.

His 1st novel, A Land of Laughs (1980), is indicative of his general style & subject matter. Told around the super naturalistic foremost-human, the novel portrays a immature school teacher shopping for meaning across back testing the life of a preferred toddlers's book creator of his youth. Warmly, & unknown to his expectations, greeted per creator's grown-grown girl, all about seems ticket until a pooch begins talking to him, when a line between a fairyl& created by his locate subject and a reality of the school teacher's life, when a reader begins to question good how else great deal trust may be positioned therein storyteller. Subsequent novels would expand inside these themes, however typically contain undependable teller in the globe in which magic is take for natural. (Of these commentator claimed that Carroll would st& been considered the wizardly realist got he been innate inside South Americthe and got a Spanish last name.)

His short story, "Friend's Best Man," won the World Fantasy Award, and Carroll's function has oftentimes been short-employed for that award & a Bram Stoker Award for horror literature. His collection of short-stories, A Panic Hand, won a Bram Stoker Award in 1995 for Best Fiction Collection. Two A L& of Laughs and From either A Dentition of Angels won a French "Prix Imaginaire." Outside a Mutt Museum won A British Fantasy Award for best novel.

More works include: Voice of My Shadow (1983) A Rondua Trilogy Bones of the Moon (1987) (a slightly different version was published in the U.S. inside 1988) Sleeping inside Flaming (1988) a Tike Through the Sky (1989) Black Cocktail (1990) (a novelette) Outside a Mutt Museum (1991) When Silence (1992) From either a Dentition of Angels (1993) A Panic Hand (1995) (a collection of short stories originally published around 1989 within Germany) '''A Crane's Learn from Trilogy' Kissing A Beehive (1997) A Marriage of Sticks (2000) A Wooden Sea (2001) A Up to date York Days Notable Book A Heidelberg Cylinder (1999-2000) (Gr& copy limited edition, a lot signed by Jonathan Carroll and Dave McKean. A select few left over copies while forgoing a autographs were sold too.) Whiten Apples (2002) Glass Soup'' October 2005