"Susan Griffin, author, essayist, poet and playwright, passed away peacefully in her hillside home in North Berkeley on Sept. 30 surrounded by a close circle of friends. Through the picture window, the sun sent golden rays across a cloud-dappled sky, and inside, as Sarah Brightman's version of Nessun Dorma reached its roof lifting peak, Susan took her final breath. Those of us holding vigil around the bedside felt as if the roof were being lifted off and Susan's spirit headed heavenward."
"She made her earliest national mark with essays and reporting in the 1970s, and with landmark books such as Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (1978) and Pornography and Silence (1981), works that helped launch and shape ecofeminist thought by tracing cultural, environmental and sexual violences as parts of the same social fabric. Her willingness to mix genres essay, poetry, memoir and political philosophy became a model for later writers who refused tidy boundaries between art and activism."
"Griffin's later books continued to explore war, memory, and the private lives of public events; A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War (1992) was a finalist for major national prizes and brought her meditations on trauma and history to a wider audience. Across more than 20 books, her work remained insistently ethical: asking not only what had been done, but how the stories we tell make those deeds possible."
Susan Griffin died peacefully at her North Berkeley home on Sept. 30, surrounded by friends as sunlight and Sarah Brightman's Nessun Dorma accompanied her final breath. Born in Los Angeles on Jan. 26, 1943, she produced more than twenty books combining essay, poetry, memoir and political philosophy. Landmark works such as Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her and Pornography and Silence helped shape ecofeminist thought by tracing cultural, environmental and sexual violences as interconnected. Later books, including A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War, examined war, memory and trauma. Her work remained insistently ethical, lyrical, and committed to revealing how stories enable violence.
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