Gina Berriault

The Descent

originally published:
New York : Atheneum
1960

We offered this copy of the first edition in our Catalog 87.

awards:

  • PEN/Faulkner Award(1997)
  • First Book(1960)

reference info

bio notes:
born: 1/1/1926
died: 7/15/1999
born as: Gina Berriault
nationality: USA

California-born author whose first novel, The Descent, was published in 1960, and whose 1996 short-story collection Women in Their Beds won the PEN/Faulkner Award.

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