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'''Sara Davidson''' (b. 1943), Jewish author Sara Jean Davidson was born in Los Angeles County 5 Feb 1943 and grew up in California. She went to U.C. Berkeley 1960-1 (at least). Moved to New York. Moved back to California in 1975. Now lives in Colorado. She has a married sister Terry who lives in Hawaii. Their mother is called "93" in a post dated 14 May 2008. ===Primary Sources for 1=== *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&f2=&f1=davidson&sx=&f9=&f5=&f4=&rg_f3__date=&rs_f3__date=0&f6=&f7=wass&gskw=&prox=1&db=cabirth1905&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=&gss=rfs&gst=&so=3 California Birth Index] showing : "Sara Jean Davidson born 5 Feb 1943, Los Angeles County, mother's maiden name Wass" *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=8049&iid=NEWS-CA-OA_TR.1977_08_29_0004&rc=301,388,397,430;422,388,615,430;792,1271,870,1321;889,1271,1083,1321&fn=sara&ln=davidson&st=d&ssrc=&pid=512521220 ''The Giant Step from Sorority to Sit-In''], Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California), 29 Aug 1977, page 4 : "In September of my sophomore year...There were more than 40 sororities at the University of California in 1961, but only three accepted Jewish girls...." ===Secondary Sources for 1=== *[http://www.saradavidson.com/ Sara Davidson's official website], including her [http://www.saradavidson.com/about.htm autobiography] *[http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Sara+Davidson&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=author-navigational&hl=en Books by Sara Davidson] *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Davidson "Sara Davidson"] on Wikipedia ==Mr Davidson== ==Mrs Davidson== ==Mr Davidson == ==Mrs Davidson== ==The Grandfather== [http://books.google.com/books?id=4o-4G7UIuPkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Sara+inauthor:Davidson&sig=BWg7pMUvYpmpLF3zUJIE7q5p7js#PPA21,M1 "My grandfather had made the journey to this land of dreams in 1913. He had come to New York from Debrecen, Hungary"], then took a train to San Francisco by 1915, then went south to Los Angeles, where he found a job as an upholsterer at Barker Brothers. He wrote back to his wife, still in New York, to join him. Sara's mother was born in Los Angeles the next year. Later Mr unknown, the grandfather opened an auction house in 1940 from where he auctioned the estates of John Barrymore and Hedy Lamar. (Why isn't Sara naming him?) In Loose Change she writes "my grandfather will be 90 this year". He had "lived in a house on Orange Street" for 30 years.
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