Flinders, Carol (Personal Name)

Robertson, L. The Laurel's kitch. bread book, c1984: CIP t.p. (Carol Flinders)

LC data base, 3/20/84 (hdg.: Flinders, Carol)

Her Enduring grace, c1993: t.p. (Carol Lee Flinders) p. 4 of cover (Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley; where she teaches Religious and women's studies)

Enduring lives, c2006: title page (Carol Lee Flinders)

Wikipedia.org, accessed 15 February 2016: (Carol Lee Flinders (née Ramage; born 1943) is a writer, independent scholar, educator, speaker, and former syndicated columnist. She received a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on medieval women's mysticism. She is currently faculty at the Sophia Center for Culture and Spirituality at Holy Names College in Oakland, California, where she teaches courses on mysticism and contemplative spirituality. She is also a Fellow at Santa Clara University. In the past, Flinders taught at the University of California at Berkeley, the Graduate Theological Union, and elsewhere. Her published writings cover a variety of topics ranging from medieval Christian mysticism to vegetarian cooking to scientific research on meditation. She is a coauthor of Laurel's Kitchen (1976) and its later editions, which in all sold more than a million copies. From 1977 through 1989 she wrote a widely syndicated column on vegetarian cooking. Notes from Laurel's Kitchen. Flinders (birth name Ramage) was born in Portland, Oregon, on 12 December 1943 to Gilbert H. and Jeanne Lee Ramage. As a child, she grew up on a farm in Oregon's Willamette Valley. In 1958 her family moved to Spokane. She graduated from North Central High School (Spokane, Washington) in 1961, later receiving a bachelor's degree from Stanford University (1965), and a PhD in comparative literature, with a focus on medieval women's mysticism, from the University of California at Berkeley (1973))