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Dorothy Bryant


Born
San Francisco, The United States
Died
December 17, 2017

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Dorothy Bryant was born in San Francisco in 1930, second daughter of Joe and Giuditta Calvetti, both born in Balangero, a factory town near Turin, Italy, and brought to the United States as children. Bryant became the first in her family to graduate from college, and she earned her living teaching (high school and college) until 1976. She began writing in 1960 and has since published a dozen books of fiction and non-fiction. Her plays have been performed in the Bay Area and beyond.

Bryant is known for her mystical, feminist and fantastic novels and plays that traverse the space between the real world and her character's inner psyche or soul. Her book The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You was described by Alice Walker as "One of my favorite book ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 2,759 ratings · 331 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting ...
4.16 avg rating — 2,335 ratings — published 1971 — 15 editions
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Confessions of Madame Psyche
4.27 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions
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Ella Price's Journal
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Miss Giardino
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3.44 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1978 — 7 editions
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The Test
3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions
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A Day in San Francisco
3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions
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Writing a Novel
3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions
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Killing Wonder
3.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions
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The Garden of Eros
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Anita, Anita: Garibaldi of ...
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“Change happens very slow and very sudden.”
― Dorothy Bryant, The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
tags: change, feminist, metaphysics, science-fiction
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“You have only to want it,to believe it, and tonight when you close your eyes, you can begin your journey”
― Dorothy Bryant, The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
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“the dance ritual never ended, The small children just sat down one by one as they got tired.”
― Dorothy Bryant, The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
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