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Jane Green, born in 1968,[2] also known by her married name, Jane Green Warburg,[1] is an English-born American author whose works of fiction are American and international best-sellers.[2] As of 2014, Green's books had sold in excess of 10 million copies globally, with translations of them appearing in thirty-one languages,[2] making her a leading author, globally, of commercial women's fiction.^{[not verified in body]} With regard to genres, she has been described as "[o]ne of the first of the chick lit" authors,[2][3][4] and as a founding author of the form of fiction sometimes referred to as "mum lit."[3]

Jane Green
Born	(1968-05-31) 31 May 1968 (age 54)[1] London, England
Other names	Jane Green Warburg
Occupation	Author
Years active	2000–present
Spouse(s)	first, David Burke; second, Ian Warburg
Children	6, of whom 2 are stepchildren

Biography

Jane Green was born in London, England, on 31 May 1968.[1] She attended South Hampstead High School, and went on to study fine art at Aberystwyth University.[2][1] and Ravensbourne School of Art.

Career

Green was employed by Granada TV as a publicist in her early 20s.[2] She continued working as a journalist throughout her twenties,^[when?] writing women's features for publications including The Daily Express,[2][5]^{[better source needed]} The Daily Mail, and ^{[citation needed]} Cosmopolitan magazine.^{[citation needed]}

Green left The Daily Express in 1996, to begin work which in the publication of her first book, Straight Talking seven months later,[2][5] for which there was a bidding war,[2] and which became a best-seller.^{[citation needed]} The book launched her career as "the queen of chick lit".^{[quote citation needed]} Her novels include Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans (2000),[2] Life Swap (UK; Swapping Lives in the US, 2006),[2] Second Chance (2007),[2] The Beach House (2008),[2] and Saving Grace (2015),[2] five of seventeen novels through 2016 that became New York Times best-sellers.^{[verification needed][citation needed]} As of 2014, Green had over 10 million books in print,[2] and many global best-sellers.^{[citation needed]} "Jane Green" is the name she continued to use in her writing career, including after she married Ian Warburg of the Warburg banking family, her second spouse,[2] and legally took his name.^{[citation needed]}

Green has taught at writers' conferences,[2] and writes for various publications including Cosmopolitan magazine,[2] The Sunday Times,^{[citation needed]} The Daily Telegraph,^{[citation needed]} Parade magazine,^{[citation needed]} and The Huffington Post.[2] A graduate of the French Culinary Institute, she is publishing a cookbook, Good Taste.^{[full citation needed]} As of this date,^[when?] Green is also writing as a weekly column for The Lady magazine in the United Kingdom.^{[citation needed]} Her contribution of an e-book on the marriages of English royals for ABC News, Green became an ABC News Radio correspondent, and covered the 2011 wedding of "Kate" Middleton to England's Prince William.[2]

Green contributed a story on the virtue of marital fidelity for The Moth Radio Hour, which was recorded in November 2015, and aired in September 2016.[6]

Personal life

As of 2014, Green lived in Westport, Connecticut,[2] with her second husband, investment adviser Ian Warburg (grandson of Mary and Edward Warburg), whom she married 6 March 2009. Green has four children from her first marriage[2] to American investment banker Davide Burke [7] and two stepchildren.[2]

Books

This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. (September 2016)

References

Further reading

• Kaufman, Joanne (10 July 2015). "What I Love: Jane Green's Creaky Cottage". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
• Dodd, Ros (1999). "Too many Mr Wrongs don't make a Mr Right; Author Jane Green reveals to Ros Dodd that her former Bridget Jones-like existence meant when her knight in shining armour turned up, she almost ran a mile." Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd. Retrieved 9 July 2019.

External links

• More than 20 independent or semi-independent published sources of information on the title subject (see "Press")
• Official website

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