(1936-2004) published her first stories at twenty-four. All her literature is inspired by her own memories: her childhood in various mining towns in Idaho, Kentucky, and Montana, her glamorous adolescence in Santiago de Chile, her stays in El Paso, New York, Mexico, or California, her three failed marriages, her alcoholism, or the various jobs she held to support her four children: nurse, telephone operator, cleaner, writing teacher at various universities and in a prison. She published six books of stories and has been awarded numerous times.
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