found: Her Homemade love, 1986:CIP t.p. (J. California Cooper) pub. info (author of 17 plays; lives in Oakland, Calif.)
found: Los Angeles times WWW site, Sept. 25, 2014(in obituary dated Sept. 23, 2014: J. California Cooper; born in Berkeley; died Saturday [Sept. 20, 2014] in Seattle, at 82; known for work such as the novel "Family" and the short story collections "A Piece of Mine," "The Matter of Life" and "Homemade Love")
found: U.S. copyright database, Sept. 25, 2014(J. California Cooper, 1931- a.k.a. (Joan Cooper); Joan California Cooper)
found: Wikipedia, Oct. 2, 2014(Joan Cooper, (Oct. 10, 1931 - Sept. 20, 2014), known by her pen name, J. California Cooper, was an American playwright and author; she has 17 plays, winner of Black Playwright of the Year in 1978)
found: African American National Biography, accessed January 04, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Cooper, J. California; Joan Cooper; fiction writer, dramatist, novelist, playwright; born in 1945 in Berkeley, California, United States; popular play Strangers staged at the San Francisco Theater of Fine Arts (1970's); published short story collections and novels; achieved notable success with novels A Piece of Mine (1984); Family (1991), In Search of Satisfaction (1994) and The Wake of the Wind (1998); wrote African American post-Civil War chronicles Some People, Some Other Place (2006) and Life is Short, but Wide (2009); honors include Black Playwright of the Year in (1978) and the American Book Award (1989))