Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her stories are inspired by her early childhood in various Western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago, Chile; three failed marriages; a lifelong problem with alcoholism; her years spent in Berkeley, New Mexico, and Mexico City; and the various jobs she held to support her writing and her four sons. Sober and writing steadily by the 1990s, she took a visiting writer's post at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1994 and was soon promoted to associate professor. In 2001, in failing health, she moved to Southern California to be near her sons. She died in 2004 in Marina del Rey. A collection of her stories, A Manual for Cleaning Women, was published to great acclaim in 2015.
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1: The Musical Vanity Boxes Unit
2: Sometimes in Summer Unit
3: Andado: A Gothic Romance Unit
4: Dust to Dust Unit
5: Itinerary Unit
6: Lead Street, Albuquerque Unit
7: Noël. Texas. 1956 Unit
8: The Adobe House with a Tin Roof Unit
9: A Foggy Day Unit
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11: Evening in Paradise Unit
12: La Barca de la Ilusión Unit
13: My Life Is an Open Book Unit
14: The Wives Unit
15: Noël, 1974 Unit
16: The Pony Bar, Oakland Unit
17: Daughters Unit
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20: Lost in the Louvre Unit
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