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Caroline Knapp (November 8, 1959 – June 3/4, 2002) was an American writer and columnist whose candid best-selling memoir A Love Story recounted her 20-year battle with alcoholism. She was the daughter of noted psychiatrist Peter H. Knapp, who did groundbreaking research into psychosomatic medicine. LifeKnapp grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts[1] and graduated from Brown University. From 1988–95, she was a columnist for the Boston Phoenix, where her column "Out There" often featured the fictional "Alice K." In 1994, those columns were collected in her first book, Alice K's Guide to Life: One Woman's Quest for Survival, Sanity, and the Perfect New Shoes. Knapp won wide acclaim for Drinking: A Love Story (1996), which described her life as a "high-functioning alcoholic" and remained on The New York Times Best Seller List for several weeks. She followed Drinking with Pack of Two, also a best-seller, which recounted her relationship with her dog Lucille and humans' relationships with dogs in general. Knapp started smoking in her 20s and never stopped.[2] She was diagnosed with lung cancer in April 2002. In May 2002, she married her longtime friend and companion, photographer Mark Morelli. She died in Cambridge of lung cancer on June 3, 2002. Two books of hers were published after her death: Appetites: Why Women Want, which described Knapp's experience with anorexia and other women's struggles with addictions, and The Merry Recluse, a collection of essays. Bibliography
References1. ^{{cite book|last=Knapp|first=Caroline|title=Drinking: A Love Story|year=1996|publisher=The Dial Press|isbn=0-385-31551-1|pages=39}} 2. ^{{cite web|last=Thurber|first=Jon|title=Caroline Knapp, 42; Wrote of Alcohol Struggle|url=http://archive.tobacco.org/news/96868.html|publisher=Tobacco.org|accessdate=July 13, 2013}} External links
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