Donna Hilbert
| Donna Hilbert | |
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| Born |
June 25, 1946 Grandfield, Oklahoma |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Poetry, Short Story, Non-Fiction, Theater |
| Notable works | Women Who Make Money and the Men Who Love Them (1994) |
| Notable awards | Staple First Editions |
| Website | |
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Donna Hilbert (born June 25, 1946) is an American poet who also writes short stories, plays, and essays. As a founding member of the Progressive Dinner Party in Long Beach, California, she is also known for her commitment to social justice, philanthropy and community arts programs.
Hilbert was born in 1946 in Grandfield, Oklahoma, a small town near the Texas border south of Deep Red Creek and north of the Red River. Her family was Methodist. At the age of seven, she moved with her parents to the San Fernando Valley of Southern California, first in Van Nuys, then Reseda, and finally in Northridge. At the age of eighteen, she married into an upper middle class Catholic family. Hilbert and her husband raised three sons. In summer 1998 her husband was killed in a freak bicycle accident by a motorist driving home from a methadone clinic. She has lived in Long Beach, CA since 1998.
Hilbert did not begin writing until after her father's death, when she was 34 years old. By that time, she had thoroughly committed herself to the domestic heavy-lifting of many women in her generation, putting obligations as wife and mother before her own education or career. But Hilbert had long fostered an emerging ambition on her own by studying such diverse writers as Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud, Graham Greene, Omar Kayam, and Grace Metalious. She eventually completed an undergraduate degree, in political science, from California State University, Long Beach (in 1978), as well as a graduate degree, in psychotherapy, from the California Family Study Center (in 1987).
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