CV

   
   
EDUCATION: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (American Literature), 1963
   
TRAVEL: Mexico, Europe, China, Singapore, Bali, Newfoundland, Australia
   
PUBLICATIONS:

The Rest is Done with Mirrors (1970)
Blue Money (nonfiction) (1973)
Mothers, Daughters (1977)
Rhine Maidens (1980)
Golden Days (1986)
Making History (1991)
Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America (nonfiction) (1995)
The Handyman (1999)
Making A Literary Life (nonfiction) (2002)

"The Mirrored Ball in the Hollywood Dance Hall" (1988)

As 1/3 of "Monica Highland" (with Lisa See and John Espey): Lotus Land (1983), 110 Shanghai Road (1986), Greetings from Southern California (1988). With John Espey: Two Schools of Thought (nonfiction) (1991)

Regular Book Reviewer: Los Angeles Times, 1981 - 93, New York Newsday, 1990 - 1992, Washington Post, 1993 - Friday morning book reviewer
   
TEACHING: Professor of English, Loyola Marymount University, 1970-1985
Visiting Professor of English, UCLA, 1986-1989
Adjunct Professor of English, UCLA, 1989-current
   
MEMBER: National Book Critics Circle
Writers Guild of America
PEN West International (Board - President 1990 - 1991)
Friends of English, UCLA (Board)
Poets & Writers (Board)
   
AWARDS: National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Sidney Hillman Award
Bread and Roses Award (National Women's Political Caucus)
Vesta Award: "Writing" 1989
Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction (1990-1991)
Lila Wallace Teaching Grant (1992-1993)
Apple Award: Women's Care Cottage (1991)
Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Body of Work Award (1998)
Getty Scholarship (1998)
Midway Plantation Fellow (2002)

 

 

 

 
 
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