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Elise Frances Miller welcomes you to her Goodreads Author Page, and hopes to have honest conversations with you about love and revolution in 1968 - and today! Her novel, The Berkeley Girl, in Paris 1968, re-released in 2016 (formerly A Time to Cast Away Stones, 2012), is well-researched historical fiction, but her life has been pretty exciting in its own way. She was born in Los Angeles into a family of diehard Republicans. She annoyed them all when she joined the Young Democrats in high school. She was going to be (and was!) the first in her family to graduate from college, and she set her sights on the bastion of free speech, UC Berkeley.

Look for two new stories in Fault Zone: Strike Slip, published by Sand Hill Review Press, Dec. 2019. Elise Frances Miller welcomes you to her Goodreads Author Page, and hopes to have honest conversations with you about love and revolution in 1968 - and today! Her novel, The Berkeley Girl, in Paris 1968, re-released in 2016 (formerly A Time to Cast Away Stones, 2012), is well-researched historical fiction, but her life has been pretty exciting in its own way. She was born in Los Angeles into a family of diehard Republicans. She annoyed them all when she joined the Young Democrats in high school. She was going to be (and was!) the first in her family to graduate from college, and she set her sights on the bastion of free speech, UC Berkeley.

Look for two new stories in Fault Zone: Strike Slip, published by Sand Hill Review Press, Dec. 2019. Elise's memoir, “My People’s Park,” won 2nd prize for prose in Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the ‘60s and ‘70s (She Writes Press, 2013).

With Elise's art history degrees from UC Berkeley (1969) and from UCLA (1972), she began writing as an art critic and reviewer for several well known publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Art News, The Reader, and San Diego Magazine, for which she wrote a monthly column. Two of her short stories have been published in The Sand Hill Review (2007, 2010), for which she served as guest fiction editor in 2008. These were included in the SHR's tenth anniversary publication, The Best of Sand Hill Review (2012). In addition, her short stories have been published in many editions of the San Francisco Bay Area literary anthology, Fault Zone. Other gigs have included high school and college instructor and a communications director at San Diego State University and Stanford.

In 1998, she and her husband moved from San Diego to the San Francisco Bay Area, where was a member of the San Francisco Writers Workshop for 15 years. Today, she enjoys the region's literary opportunities and her memberships in the California Writers Club, San Francisco Peninsula Branch, Women's National Book Association, and the Historical Novel Society.
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	A Time to Cast Away Stones 3.75 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Berkeley Girl: In Paris, 1968 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Fault Zone: Stepping Up to the Edge by Lisa Meltzer Penn (Editor), David Hirzel, Darlene Frank 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Berkeley Girl is a winner!

My novel, The Berkeley Girl, In Paris 1968, won the 2017 Distinguished Favorites award in Historical Fiction, offered by the Independent Press Awards! Thanks to Tory Hartmann from Sand Hill Review Press for submitting my work. Look for my sequel coming out in Sept., The Berkeley Girl: Rendezvous in London and other Stories of the 1960s.

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“...I began pulling out old pictures and yearbooks from our Los Angeles high schools and UC Berkeley. Suddenly there we were, thousands of trim-haired, neatly-dressed, conservative-looking youngsters, with perky, forced smiles, encased in identical inch by inch-and-a-quarter boxes for our children to snicker at. Only they did not snicker.
“Mom, this isn’t the 60s, is it?”
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