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Lucia Berlin

1936 - 2004

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Lucia Brown Berlin (November 12, 1936 – November 12, 2004) was an American short story writer. She had a small, devoted following, but did not reach a mass audience during her lifetime. She rose to sudden literary fame in 2015, eleven years after her death, with the publication of a volume of her selected stories, A Manual for Cleaning Women. It hit The New York Times bestseller list in its second week, and within a few weeks had outsold all her previous books combined. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lucia Berlin is the 2,838th most popular writer (up from 2,872nd in 2019), the 4,082nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,635th in 2019) and the 325th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Lucia Berlin ranks 2,838 out of 7,302. Before her are Xu Zhimo, Mihály Vörösmarty, Imre Madách, Guiraut Riquier, John Evelyn, and Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav. After her are Carlo Emilio Gadda, Harold Robbins, Idries Shah, Charles Berlitz, Adrienne Rich, and Ricarda Huch.

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Among people born in 1936, Lucia Berlin ranks 223. Before her are Aribert Reimann, Vice Vukov, Karl Lehmann, Arend Lijphart, Ivonka Survilla, and Leonid Kuravlyov. After her are Dyanne Thorne, Polina Astakhova, W. D. Hamilton, Ian Hacking, Buddy Guy, and Keir Dullea. Among people deceased in 2004, Lucia Berlin ranks 128. Before her are Alexandra Ripley, Jesús Gil, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, René Laloux, Paul Winfield, and Tom Wesselmann. After her are Big Boss Man, Briek Schotte, Helmut Griem, Piero Piccioni, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, and Werner Goldberg.

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Among people born in United States, Lucia Berlin ranks 4,082 out of 20,380. Before her are Daniel Bryan (1981), William L. Shirer (1904), Steve Gadd (1945), Jeff Fahey (1952), Max Baer (1909), and James Mangold (1963). After her are Miley Cyrus (1992), Harold Robbins (1916), Marshall Bell (1942), Jackie Cooper (1922), Ty Cobb (1886), and Jeannette Rankin (1880).

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