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Input (English): Sigrid de Lima (4 December 1921 – 19 September 1999) was an American novelist. She was born in New York City on 4 December 1921. She was the only child of Agnes de Lima, a writer on education, and Andrew Lang. She grew up in New York City, Mexico, and Palo Alto, California. She received her B. A. from Barnard College in 1942 and her M. S. in Journalism from Columbia University in 1944. After college, she worked for the United Press and as a freelance journalist until she began writing fiction full-time in 1948, studying in Hiram Hadyn's writer's workshop at the New School of Social Research. Question: Did authors Sigrid de Lima and Irving Stone both live at least part of their lives in California? Answer: yes
Output (English):  She grew up in New York City, Mexico, and Palo Alto, California.