birth_date: 1946-01-21 00:00:00
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name: Gretel Ehrlich
about: Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer, novelist, essayist, and poet born on a horse ranch near Santa Barbara, California and educated at both Bennington College in Vermont and UCLA film school. After working in film for 10 years and following the death of a loved one, she began writing full-time in 1978 while living on a Wyoming ranch where she had been filming. Her first book,  The Solace of Open Spaces, is a collection of essays describing her love of the region.