Background
She was born in Lansing, Michigan to Clifford and Helen (née Dailey) Baker.
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Gabrielle Burton
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She attended Marygrove College and the American Film Institute.
Career
Her best-known novels were I’m Running Away From Home but I’m Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer of Women's Liberation, Heartbreak Hotel, Impatient With Desire and Searching for Tamsen Donner. Burton was awarded a Nicholl Fellowship in 2000 and wrote the 2002 film Manna from Heaven. Gabrielle Baker Burton died of pancreatic cancer in Venice, California on September 3, 2015, aged 76.
