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Gina Berriault


USA flag (1926 - 1997)

Berriault was born in Long Beach, California to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. Her father was a freelance writer and Berriault took her inspiration from him, using his stand-up typewriter to write her first stories while still in grammar school.

Berriault taught writing at the Iowa Writer's Workshop and San Francisco State University. She also received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship,
 
 
Novels
   The Descent (1961)
   The Lights of Earth (1984)
   The Great Petrowski (2000)
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Collections
   The Mistress (1965)
   Infinite Passion of Expectation (1982)
   Women in Their Beds (1988)
   The Tea Ceremony (2002)
   Stolen Pleasures (2011)
   Seven Stories (2022)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Stone Boy (1957)
   A Conference of Victims (1962)
     aka Afterwards
   The Son (1966)
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Anthologies containing stories by Gina Berriault
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Points of View (1966)
An Anthology of Short Stories
edited by
Kenneth R McElheny and James Moffett

Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book winner (1997) : Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories




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