Gina Berriault is able, with a few pen strokes, to create remarkable character portraits and dramatic situations. Her fiction looms large because she follows in the tradition of the nineteenth-century Russian writers Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevski,...

Gina Berriault. The Tea Ceremony. Leonard Gardner, foreword. Washington, D.C. Shoemaker & Hoard (Avalon, distr.). 2003. xiv + 200 pages. $25. ISBN 1-59376-004-3 IN "THE TEA CEREMONY," one of Gina Berriault's well-observed, delicately written stories, a teacher who has enjoyed Japan returns...

National Book Critics Circle Award winner Gina Berriault, who also won the PEN/Faulkner, the Rea and the Commonwealth gold medal for her collection Women in their Beds, died suddenly last summer, but not before finishing an ecofable from her hospital bed called The...

[In the following interview, Berriault discusses her writing and motivation.]

[In the following review, Amdahl strongly praises Berriault's work and asserts that she is a powerful force against the mediocrity of modern fiction.]

[In the following favorable review of Women in Their Beds, George praises the vivid precision of Berriault's work.]