Jane Alison
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Jane Shumate Alison was born in Canberra, Australia, and grew up in Australia and elsewhere as a child of a parent in the Australian and United States Foreign Service. She subsequently attended public schools in Washington, D.C., and then earned a B.A. in classics from Princeton University[1] in 1983. Before writing fiction, she worked as an administrator for the National Endowment for the Humanities[2], as a production artist for the Washington City Paper, as an editor for the Miami New Times, and as a proposal and speech writer for Tulane University. She also worked as a freelance editor and illustrator before attending Columbia University to study creative writing.
Her first novel, The Love-Artist, was published in 2001 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux[3] and has been translated into seven languages. It was followed by The Marriage of the Sea, a New York Times Notable Book[4] of 2003. Her latest novel, Natives and Exotics, appeared in 2005 and was one of that summer’s recommended readings by Alan Cheuse[5] of National Public Radio[6]. Her short fiction and critical writing have recently appeared in Seed; Five Points; Postscript: Essays on Film and the Humanities; and The Germanic Review. She has also written several biographies for children and co-edited with Harold Bloom a critical series on women writers. She has taught writing and literature at Columbia University, Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, and for writers groups in Geneva, Switzerland; she currently lives in Karlsruhe, Germany and teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Queens University[7], Charlotte.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Fiction
- Natives and Exotics, ISBN 0156032473 (Harvest Books; 1st edition, April 10, 2006).
- The Marriage of the Sea, ISBN 0374199418 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition, April 16, 2003).
- The Love-Artist: A Novel, ISBN 0312420064 (Picador, April 6, 2002).
[edit] External links
- Jane Alison's Home Page
- Artfully as He Writes: New York Time's Critic Michiko Kakutani's review of The Love Artist
- Fluid Dynamics: New York Time's Critic and Author Margot Livesey's review of The Marriage of the Sea
- Transplants: New York Time's Critic and Author Sue Halpern's review of Natives and Exotics
[edit] References
- ^ Jane Shumate Alison '83 discusses her first novel, The Love-Artist
- ^ Jane Shumate Alison, a concentrator in classics and a member of the class of 1983, used her training in Latin and Greek to get a first job at the National Endowment for the Humanities
- ^ Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- ^ An intricate, elegant novel that ponders the connections among love, illusion and fidelity in the permutations of eight central characters behaving in two romantic and romanticized cities, New Orleans and Venice.
- ^ Alan Cheuse: An Armful of Books for Summer
- ^ National Public Radio Excerpt: 'Natives and Exotics'
- ^ Queens University, Charlotte
