Lisa Goldstein

2 universes Last reviewed 2026-11-02

Lisa Goldstein was born on 21 November 1953 in Los Angeles, California. She earned a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1975, and from 1976 to 1982 she co-owned the Dark Carnival Bookstore in Berkeley. Her first novel, The Red Magician (1982), is a fantasy about a young Jewish woman during the Holocaust, drawn partly from stories her mother told about a Hungarian village before the war; it won a Porgie Award and a National Book Award for original paperback. Later books include The Dream Years (1985), A Mask for the General (1987), Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon (1993), Walking the Labyrinth (1996), Dark Cities Underground (1999) and The Alchemist's Door (2002). She has said she sees fantasy as a modern form of mythology that can comment on reality. She lives in Oakland, California.

Universe(s)

Books

• Dark Cities Underground (1999) · Dark Cities Underground Core Canon
• The Uncertain Places (2011) · The Uncertain Places Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 2 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 3 (1 won, 2 nomination)

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