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Caron Knauer is the author of American Slavery on Film: Hollywood History,  published by ABC-CLIO/Bloomsbury in February 2023. She published film reviews on Educational Media Reviews Online (EMRO).

After working in book publishing for many years, she was hired by 20th Century Fox as a creative executive, looking for books to be made into movies. She served as the associate producer of the hit film Waiting to Exhale in 1995. She’s working on a screenplay and teaches English at La Guardia Community College. 

As a volunteer, Caron runs a senior writing group at Sunnyside Community Services.