Janet Fitch
She wrote the novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College. Fitch was born in Los Angeles, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of voracious readers.
Janet Fitch
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- Name
- Janet Fitch
- Birth Name
- Janet Elizabeth Fitch
- Born
- 9 November 1955
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Writer
- Education
- Reed College
- Full name
- Janet Elizabeth Fitch.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Fields
- romance.
- Known for
- White Oleander.
- Languages
- English.
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But when she won a student exchange to Keele University in England, where her passion for Russian history led her, she awoke in the middle of the night on her twenty-first birthday with the revelation she wanted to write fiction. Fitch was a faculty member in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, where she taught fiction. Two of her favorite authors are Fyodor Dostoevsky and Edgar Allan Poe. Her third novel, Paint It Black, named after the Rolling Stones song of the same name, was published in September 2006. Amber Tamblyn directed a 2016 feature film based on the book.
Janet Fitch studied at Keele University, Reed College and Fairfax High School. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are romance. Employment is recorded with University of Southern California. Works named in the authority record are White Oleander.
Author Janet Fitch at the 2006 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States.
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Janet Fitch, novelist, at the LA Book Fest in Los Angeles, California.
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• Name — Janet Fitch • Birth Name — Janet Elizabeth Fitch • Born — 9 November 1955 • Birthplace — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Occupation — Writer • Education — Reed College • Genre — Literary Fiction • Notable Works — White Oleander
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Janet Fitch, recorded as an author, was born in 1955. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Books
• Kicks (Fawcett Books, 1996) • White Oleander (Little, Brown, 1999) • Paint It Black (Little, Brown, 2006) • The Revolution of Marina M. (Little, Brown and Company, 2017) • Chimes of a Lost Cathedral (Little, Brown, 2019)
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