Background
Mark, Janet Majorie was born on June 22, 1943 in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England. Daughter of Colin Denis and Marjorie Brisland.
Mark, Janet Majorie was born on June 22, 1943 in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England. Daughter of Colin Denis and Marjorie Brisland.
NDD, Canterbury College Art, 1965.
In all she wrote over fifty novels and plays and many anthologised short stories. She was also a "Highly Commended" runner up for Nothing To Be Afraid Of (1980). She was a secondary school teacher between 1965 and 1971 and became a full-time writer in 1974.
Mark is known for acutely observed short stories that are concise and show an imaginative use of language.
She also wrote novels about seemingly ordinary children in contemporary settings, such as Thunder and Lightnings, as well as science fiction novels set in their own universes with their own rules, such as The Ennead. Her last works include the young adult novels The Eclipse of the Century and Useful Idiots.
The title of Thunder and Lightnings, a story set in rural Norfolk, is a reference to the British Royal Air Force jet fighter the English Electric Lightning and in turn inspired the name of a website of the history of that aeroplane and others of a similar time. January Mark died suddenly at her home in Oxford from meningitis-related septicaemia in January 2006, aged 62.
Married Neil Mark, March 1, 1969 (divorced 1989). Children: Isobel, Alexander.