Janet Fitch

{{Short description|American novelist (born 1955)}} {{BLP sources|date=March 2008}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2013}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Janet Fitch | image = Janet Fitch at LA Book Fest 2025 (cropped).jpg | imagesize = | caption = Fitch in 2025 | pseudonym = | birth_name = Janet Elizabeth Fitch<ref name=FTLegends>California Births, 1905 – 1995, [http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/39461?c=search&first=Janet&last=Fitch Janet Elizabeth Fitch]</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|11|9}} | birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer | alma_mater = Reed College | period = | genre = Literary Fiction | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''White Oleander'' | website = }}

'''Janet Fitch''' (born November 9, 1955)<ref name=FTLegends/> is an American author. She wrote the novel ''White Oleander'', which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2018/janet-fitch-book.html|title=Revolutionary Spirit|last=Weber ’78|first=John|website=Reed Magazine|language=en-us|access-date=2019-06-20}}</ref>

Fitch was born in Los Angeles, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of voracious readers. As an undergraduate at Reed College, Fitch had decided to become a historian, attracted to its powerful narratives, the scope of events, the colossal personalities, and the potency and breadth of its themes. 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.<ref>[https://www.janetfitchwrites.com/about "About Janet"]. Official website. janetfitchwrites.com</ref>

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<ref name="nytimes2017">{{cite web | last=Montefiore | first=Simon Sebag | title=One Woman's Liberation, Set Against the Russian Revolution | work=New York Times | date=2017-10-20 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/books/review/revolution-of-marina-m-janet-fitch.html | accessdate = 2019-04-17}}</ref> 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.<ref name="deadline2017">{{cite web | last=Brooks | first=Brian | title=Bryan Cranston In 'Wakefield'; Amber Tamblyn Opens Directorial Debut 'Paint It Black': Specialty Box Office Preview | publisher=Deadline | date=2017-05-19 | url=https://deadline.com/2017/05/bryan-cranston-wakefield-amber-tamblyn-paint-it-black-specialty-box-office-preview-1202097928/ | accessdate = 2019-04-17}}</ref>

== 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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== External links == {{commons category|Janet Fitch}} {{Wikiquote}} * [https://www.janetfitchwrites.com/ Janet Fitch's Website] * [https://janetfitchwrites.wordpress.com Janet Fitch's Blog at Wordpress.com] * [http://www.literati.net/authors/janet-fitch/ Janet Fitch at Literati.net] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213113035/http://www.literati.net/authors/janet-fitch/ |date=February 13, 2015 }} * [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3540.Janet_Fitch Janet Fitch at Good Reads]

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