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Janet Fitch

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. "I wanted to Live, not spend my life in a library. Of course, my conception of being a writer was to wear a cape and have Adventures." She has acquired a couple of capes since then, and a few adventures. And books.Janet is currently finishing a book set during the Russian Revolution.

Quotes

Diana Cathas quoted17 hours ago
Her beauty was like the edge of a very sharp knife.
Diana Cathas quoted17 hours ago
I had seen girls clamor for new clothes and complain about what their mothers made for dinner. I was always mortified. Didn’t they know they were tying their mothers to the ground? Weren’t chains ashamed of their prisoners?
Diana Cathas quoted16 hours ago
“Men,” she said. “No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.”
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