How boring to only have one life!Ī child of the Cold War, my fantasy life was full of secret agents. But in the world of my books, I could be a pirate, a murderer, a hawk or a king. In life, I was just a little kid who everyone told what to do. I often faked illness so I could stay home and read-gluttonously. They all kissed it-and I forgot I’d made it up, and kissed it too. When I was nine, I picked up a rock on the way to school and told the kids it was a piece of the true Blarney Stone and if they kissed it, they would have the gift of blarney forever and ever. She lives in Los Angeles and travels whenever she gets the chance. Fitch graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1978 with a BA in History.
Whiteley Fellow, a Research Fellow at the Huntington Library and a Moseley Fellow at Pomona College. She lectures frequently on fiction writing.įitch was a 2009 Likhachev Cultural Fellow to St.
She taught creative writing for 14 years in the USC Master of Professional Writing program, as well as VCFA’s Writing and Publishing program, A Room of Her Own (AROHO), the UCLA Writer’s Program, and Pomona College. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral.Īdditionally, she has written a young adult novel, Kicks, short stories, essays, articles, and reviews, contributed to anthologies and regularly teaches at the Community of Writers Summer Workshops, and in their online program. She is the author of the #1 national bestseller White Oleander, a novel translated into 24 languages, an Oprah Book Club book and the basis of a feature film, Paint It Black, also widely translated and made into a 2017 film, and her epic novels of the Russian Revolution, The Revolution of Marina M. Janet Fitch is an American author and teacher of fiction writing.
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