Caroline Paul

At 60 years old, Caroline Paul has this physical status:

Caroline Paul (born in New York City on July 29, 1963) is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction.

Early years and education

Caroline Paul was born in New York City, France, and Cornwall, Connecticut. Her father was an investment banker, and her mother was a social worker. At Stanford University, she was trained in journalism and documentary filmmaking.

Personal life

Paul and MacNaughton were married in 2018.

Alexandra Paul, Caroline Paul's identical twin, is Baywatch actress Alexandra Paul. Caroline Paul was often mistaken for her twin sister even when she was in full firefighter gear, thanks to Alexandra's fame on Baywatch. In 1998, the two sisters appeared in "Seeing Double," a People magazine feature on twins. Jonathan Paul, her younger brother, was a leader of the Animal Liberation Front, which was once considered by the US government to be a national terrorist group. The ALF's aim was to rescue animals from captivity, many from medical research labs and puppy mills. He was released in 2011 after serving a four-year term in federal jail for the 1997 arson of a slaughterhouse in Redmond, Oregon.

Paul flies ultralights, paragliders, and gyrocopters. She began training at Lake Placid in the sport of luge, becoming one of the first females to participate in the sport of skeleton, which had traditionally only accepted females. She pleaded with the US Bobsled Association, the nation's highest body, to join the team, but she was refused due to her gender.

In Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans, Paul has a chapter giving advice.

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Career

She worked as a reporter at Berkeley's public radio station KPFA before (1988) joining the San Francisco Fire Department as one of the department's first women employees. She spent the majority of her career on Rescue 2, where she and her crew were responsible for search and rescue in fires. Rescue 2 members were also trained and sent on SCUBA dive searches, rope and rappelling rescues, surf rescues, restricted space rescues, all hazardous material calls, and the most serious train and automobile wrecks.

She wrote Combat Fire, a nonfiction memoir that was released in 1998. It was a finalist at the Northern California Book Awards and an alternate selection for the Book of the Month Club. Rain's second book, East Wind, Rain, is based on the Niihau Incident, a dramatic event in which a Japanese pilot crashed-landed on the private Hawaiian island of Niihau following the attack on Pearl Harbor. "We don't want to leave when it's over," the book's New York Times review said. In 2013, Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology was published, illustrated by her partner, artist Wendy MacNaughton. It includes information about Paul and MacNaughton's high-tech hunt for their cat. The PBS Newshour characterized the book as "A thoughtful, kind and funny tale about the love people can have for their animals and the unexpected places where this passion and accompanying devotion will take them." However, it goes beyond human-human relationships by giving insight into all spouses and the roles of those we love and sometimes dislike in our lives.

In 2016, Paul published The Gutsy Girl, Escapades for Your Epic Adventure. "Lean in for Girls" is a girl's promension, not in a boardroom but in trees, cliff edges, and down wild rivers, she says. In a tumultuous New York Times essay that preceded publication, she argued that risk teaches kids responsibility, problem solving, and confidence. We are not protecting them by advising girls that these experiences are out of their hands. We're woefully under preparing them for life." The Gutsy Girl became a New York Times bestseller.

Girls must get out of their comfort zones and learn to take risks as young children, according to her TED talk, which has millions of views.

Paul worked with tea expert Sebastian Beckwith in 2018 and published A Little Tea Book.

Paul helped MacNaughton establish an online art class for children in March 2020, right at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown. Thousands of children from around the world have registered to play in DrawTogether with Wendy Mac. On Instagram live, the show had over 70 episodes. It then moved to a studio of its own and a formal first season, with Paul continuing as the iPhone cinematographer.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Po Bronson, Mary Roach, ZZ Packer, Noah Hawley, Ethan Canin, Julia Scheeres, TJ Stiles, and TJ Stiles are among the San Francisco Writers' Grotto's writers, a writer and literary group whose members include Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Ethan Canin, Ethan Canin, Vendela Vida, and TJ Stilet

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