Carol G. Wells

Carol Garonzik Wells

El Cajon, CA

mailto:cgaronzik@cox.net

BIOGRAPHY

Carol G. Wells is a retired registered nurse, marriage & family therapist, and sexologist trained at The University of Texas, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. In addition to her 25 years as a practicing sex therapist, she has taught at The University of California at Irvine, Pepperdine University, and The University of Texas at Austin.

She is pictured here with her son, Greg. The two of them are currently collaborating on a 5th book.

In 1983 she developed Humanopoly, the first board game to teach the facts of life to young children. In 1987 she was selected from among 12,000 candidates to be one of the seven finalists to replace Ann Landers at the Chicago Sun Times. From 1987 to 1991 she was a weekly columnist and special feature writer for the Knight-Ridder syndicate. Her column, Your Sex Life, appeared in newspapers around the country.

Her first book, Right Brain Sex (Prentice-Hall, 1989), was a Book of the Month Club selection and translated into four languages. About her second book, Naked Ghosts (Simon & Schuster,1991), Publishers Weekly wrote, "Reading like detective stories, these five illustrative accounts of her work reveals Wells' respect--and talent--for narrative." Her third book, Be Nice To The Man, is her first novel, a sexual thriller. It was followed by a sequel, Latent Soul.

She has written articles for Redbook, New Woman, American Woman, and Beauty Digest. Her innovative approaches to sexuality have resulted in appearances on local and national radio and television including Donahue, Oprah Winfrey, CNN, Nightline, Good Morning, America, KPBS, and KPCC.