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The eldest child of Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto, Rosanne Cash was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 24, 1955. After her parents separated she and her three sisters grew up in California.

At 18 she joined The Johnny Cash Show, further absorbing his influence along with that of his legendary touring show partners Carl Perkins and the Carter Family. The Carter Family's June Carter later became Rosanne's stepmother when she married Cash in 1968.

Rosanne went on to study drama at Nashville's Vanderbilt University and at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles before focusing on her music. In the 30 years since she has released 12 albums including Right or Wrong, Seven Year Ache,Somewhere in the Stars, Rhythm and Romance, King's Record Shop, Interiors, The Wheel, 10 Song Demo, Rules of Travel, Black Cadillac, and most recently, The List. She has also recorded 11 No. 1 singles, blurring the genres of country, rock, roots and pop. In 1985 she won the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female, for her hit "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me," and has received nine other nominations.

Her highly personal yet universally appealing writing style is also manifest in her parallel prose career. Rosanne published a collection of short stories, Bodies of Water, in 1995, and a children's book, Penelope Jane: A Fairy's Tale, in 2000. Composed, her long-awaited memoir, was published in 2010. Additionally, her essays and fiction have appeared in various collections and publications, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, The Oxford American and New York Magazine.

The mother of five children, Rosanne lives in New York City with her husband, producer and guitarist John Leventhal, and her youngest child.

For more:  Rosanne's Wikipedia entry

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September 2, 2009
I always told my daughters that a woman can never be truly refined until she learns to write a proper thank you note. This is my daughter Carrie, who takes this admonition as seriously as life and death. She has internalized all the rules of etiquette I have passed on to her, and invented a bunch of her own. I fear I have nothing left to pass on in terms of guidelines in the realm of social behavior, and now the rules and secrets are beginning to flow the other way, towards me. Just recently she chastised me for wearing something that was ‘too young’. It’s actually quite a relief to give up my role as the arbiter of propriety.

I always told my daughters that a woman can never be truly refined until she learns to write a proper thank you note. This is my daughter Carrie, who takes this admonition as seriously as life and death. She has internalized all the rules of etiquette I have passed on to her, and invented a bunch of her own. I fear I have nothing left to pass on in terms of guidelines in the realm of social behavior, and now the rules and secrets are beginning to flow the other way, towards me. Just recently she chastised me for wearing something that was ‘too young’. It’s actually quite a relief to give up my role as the arbiter of propriety.

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