Background
Janet Fitch was born on November 9, 1955, in Los Angeles, California, United States, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of voracious readers.
Author Janet Fitch signs her new book " White Oleander" at the 1st Annual West Hollywood Book Fair on October 5, 2002 in West Hollywood, California.
Author Janet Fitch signs her new book " White Oleander" at the 1st Annual West Hollywood Book Fair on October 5, 2002 in West Hollywood, California.
Author Janet Fitch, Robin Wright Penn and WB's Barry Meyer at the premiere of "White Oleander" at the Chinese Theatre and after-party at The Highlands in Hollywood, Ca. Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2002.
Writer Janet Fitch with her husband arriving at the "White Oleander" film premiere during The Toronto International Film Festival 2002 in Toronto, Canada. September 6, 2002.
Authors Janet Fitch and Chris Miller attend a fashion show featuring Jared Gold's Czarina Spring 2008 collection at Union Station on March 14, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.
Janet Fitch, author, and director Peter Kosminsky during 2002 Toronto Film Festival - "White Oleander" Party hosted by Inside Entertainment at Mildred Pierce Restaurant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Robin Wright Penn, Alison Lohman, Michelle Pfeiffer and author Janet Fitch.
Author Janet Fitch, director Peter Kosminsky and producer John Wells.
Actress/author Amber Tamblyn, author Derrick Brown and author Janet Fitch pose at Amber Tamblyn's book signing for "Dark Sparkler" at Book Soup on December 15, 2015 in West Hollywood, California.
Min Jin, Janet Fitch and Lisa See attend The Miami Book Fair at Miami Dade College Wolfson - Chapman Conference Center on November 18, 2017 in Miami, Florida.
Author Janet Fitch at the premiere of "White Oleander" at the Chinese Theatre and after-party at The Highlands in Hollywood, Ca. Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2002.
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202, USA
Fitch attended Reed College.
Kiel, Newcastle ST5 5BG, UK
Fitch attended Keele University in England.
Fitch at the book signing tent of the 2006 Texas Book Festival.
(After Carla, a childhood friend, becomes sexually promisc...)
After Carla, a childhood friend, becomes sexually promiscuous and suffers a drug overdose during a bikers' party, fifteen-year-old Laurie Greenspan begins to recognize the false allure of L.A. street life.
https://www.amazon.com/Kicks-Janet-Fitch/dp/0395696240/?tag=2022091-20
1995
(Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, Wh...)
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.
https://www.amazon.com/White-Oleander-Oprahs-Book-Club/dp/0316284955/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(From the bestselling author of White Oleander, a powerful...)
From the bestselling author of White Oleander, a powerful story of passion, first love, and a young woman's search for a true world in the aftermath of loss.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Q80T70/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Pa...)
From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young woman.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XFCL8RT/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(The story of The Revolution of Marina M. continues in bes...)
The story of The Revolution of Marina M. continues in bestselling author Janet Fitch's sweeping epic about a young woman's coming into her own against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K6FDVSJ/?tag=2022091-20
2019
novelist university professor writer
Janet Fitch was born on November 9, 1955, in Los Angeles, California, United States, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of voracious readers.
Fitch attended Reed College, and Keele University in England.
Janet Fitch attributes much of her storytelling ability to her training as a historian. She was a 2009 Likhachev fellow to St. Petersburg, Russia, a Helen R. Whiteley Fellow at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs, a research fellow at the Huntington Library, Pasadena, and a Moseley Fellow in Creative Writing at Pomona College,
The best-selling author of the novels White Oleander, Paint It Black, The Revolution of Marina M. and the upcoming Chimes of a Lost Cathedral, Fitch also regularly teaches fiction writing at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers summer workshops and has taught creative writing in the MPW program at the University of Southern California, Vermont College of Fine Art's full-residency MFA in Writing and Publishing, UC Riverside Low-Residency MFA program, Pomona College, UCLA Extension, and the Esalen Institute. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Los Angeles Noir (Akashic Press), Black Clock, Vogue, Real Simple, A Room of Her Own, Black Warrior Review, Rattling Wall, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other publications. Fitch currently lives in Los Angeles, in the hills where Rena Grushenka's girls picked trash in White Oleander.
(Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, Wh...)
1999(After Carla, a childhood friend, becomes sexually promisc...)
1995(From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Pa...)
2017(From the bestselling author of White Oleander, a powerful...)
2006(The story of The Revolution of Marina M. continues in bes...)
2019
Quotations:
"I wanted to Live, not spend my life in a library. Of course, my conception of being a writer was to wear a cape and have Adventures."
“I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.”