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LOS ANGELES, Dec 11, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Writer Elizabeth Stromme has died from gastric cancer. She was 59.
Stromme waited until 2003 for her novel "Joe's Word" to be published in America by City Lights Books. French publishing house Gallimard had published the book seven years earlier.
Stromme wrote novels about people living on the edge and essays promoting natural methods for gardening.
Nancy Peters, her editor at City Lights, told the paper in an e-mail the author was adept at delving into "the lives of people living on the margins, especially in L.A." But Stromme used crime as a backdrop rather than the means to an end in her books.
Because she was outspoken about gardening topics like learning to live with bugs, she sometimes found it hard to publish her essays.
Stromme was born June 23, 1947, in Minneapolis. She worked in advertising for eight years before becoming a full-time writer. She is survived by her husband, Philippe Garnier, whom she met in France in the 1970s, and by two sisters.
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