Janet Berliner (

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Gluckman; September 24, 1939 – October 24, 2012), was a

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-winning author and served as president of the

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from 1997 to 1998. She was also a member of

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, the

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, and the

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. She was born in

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, South Africa, but moved to America with her husband in 1960. She became a citizen of the United States in 1966, and lived in

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Bibliography

Series

*''Madagascar Manifesto'' **'' Child of the Light'' (1991) **''Child of the Journey'' (1996) **''Children of the Dusk'' (1997) –

winner *''The Madagascar Manifesto'' (omnibus) (2002) (with George Guthridge)

Novels

*''Rite of the Dragon'' (1981) (writing as Janet Gluckman) *''Artifact'' (2003) (with

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and F. Paul Wilson)

Short stories

* ''A Case for Justice'' (1998) (collected in

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's anthology '' Alternate Generals'')

Essays

* ''Mi Yagid Labanim'' (1996) (Published in Johnathan Blacke and Robert Hatch's roleplaying supplement '' Charnel Houses of Europe: The Shoah'')

References

External links

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