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Janet Fitch


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Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah's Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon.

Janet 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 an 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.
 

Genres: Historical
 
Novels
   Kicks (1995)
   White Oleander (1999)
   Paint It Black (2006)
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About the Carleton Sisters (2023)
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For Butter or Worse (2022)
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"You can count on Erin La Rosa for a rollicking good time!"

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Awards
Oprah's Book Club Best Book nominee (1999) : White Oleander


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