Janet Lewis

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Janet Lewis (1899 - 1998) was an American author.

She wrote The Wife of Martin Guerre (1941) which is the tale of one man's deception and another’s cowardice. It is a novel that was on the 2005 and 2004 English exam for Australian students. It is considered a hard topic to write on even though it relates more to modern life than first realised. The tale is written in old world language that at times is difficult to comprehend to "unexperienced" readers.

She was married to American poet and critic Yvor Winters.