Lucia Berlin

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<p><b>Lucia Berlin</b> was a short story writer with a small, devoted following during her lifetime. She rose to sudden literary fame eleven years after her death, in 2015, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux’ s publication of a volume of selected stories, <b><i>A Manual For Cleaning Women</b></i>, edited by Stephen Emerson. It hit the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller list and, within a few weeks, had outsold all her previous books combined.</p>