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Jane Alison
Jane Alison was born in Canberra, Australia, and spent two years in Australia as a small child, growing up mainly in the United States as a child of diplomatic parents. She attended public schools in Washington, D.C., and then earned a B.A. in classics from Princeton University〔(Jane Alison '83 discusses her first novel, The Love-Artist )〕 in 1983. Before writing fiction, she worked as an administrator for the National Endowment for the Humanities,〔(Jane 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 )〕 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〔(Farrar, Straus & Giroux )〕 and has been translated into seven languages. It was followed by ''The Marriage of the Sea'', a New York Times Notable Book〔(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. )〕 of 2003. Her latest novel, ''Natives and Exotics'', appeared in 2005 and was one of that summer's recommended readings by Alan Cheuse〔(Alan Cheuse: An Armful of Books for Summer )〕 of National Public Radio.〔(National Public Radio Excerpt: 'Natives and Exotics' )〕 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. Having lived in Karlsruhe, Germany for the past 10 years, she recently moved to Miami, Florida, in 2007, and began teaching in the MFA Creative Writing program at the University of Miami.
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