Gina Berriault
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Gina Berriault (January 1, 1926 – July 15, 1999), was an American novelist and short story writer.
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, and Ingram-Merrill Fellowship, a Commonwealth Gold Medal for Literature, the Pushcart Prize and several O'Henry prizes.
Her novels include:
- The Descent [1960]
- A Conference of Victims [1962]
- The Son [1966]
- The Lights of Earth [1984]
Berriault has also published three collections of short stories: The Mistress and Other Stories [1965], The Infinite Passion of Expectation: Twenty-five Stories [1982], and Women in Their Beds: New & Selected Stories [1996], which won the PEN/Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award.
Berriault's short story "The Stone Boy" was adapted by the author for the movies in 1984. [1]
