Sybil Claiborne (November 1, 1923 – December 16, 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, pacifist and member of the Board of the War Resisters League, and antiwar activist.
[1] Some of her writing was the basis for a program of comedy-dramas performed in Manhattan in 1978 at Symphony Space.
Her final book, In the Garden of Dead Cars, nominated for a feminist science fiction James Tiptree, Jr. Award, is a dystopian novel about a New York City plagued by insects and a Fascist government, was published in 1993.
She was close friends with writer Grace Paley who dedicated her Collected Stories to Claiborne "my colleague in the Writing and Mother Trade... we talked and talked for nearly 40 years.
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