Janet Fitch (born November 9, 1955)[1] is an American author. She wrote the novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College.[2]

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Janet Fitch
Fitch at the book signing tent of the 2006 Texas Book Festival
Born	Janet Elizabeth Fitch[1] (1955-11-09) November 9, 1955 (age 66) Los Angeles, California, US
Occupation	Writer
Genre	Literary Fiction
Notable works	White Oleander

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.[3]

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[4] 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.[5]

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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