Jane Green (author)
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Jane Green (born in 1968)[1] also known by her married name, Jane Green Warburg,[2] is an English-born American author whose works of fiction are American and international best-sellers.[1] As of 2014, Green's books had sold in excess of 10 million copies globally, with translations of them appearing in thirty-one languages,[1] making her a leading author, globally, of commercial women's fiction.Template:Citation needed lead With regard to genres, she has been described as "[o]ne of the first of the chick lit" authors,[1][3][4] and as a founding author of the form of fiction sometimes referred to as "mum lit."[3]
Biography
Jane Green was born in London, England, on 31 May 1968.[2] She attended South Hampstead High School, and went on to study fine art at Aberystwyth University.[1][2] and Ravensbourne School of Art.
Career
Green was employed by Granada TV as a publicist in her early 20s.[1] She continued working as a journalist throughout her twenties,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". writing women's features for publications including The Daily Express,[1][5]Template:Better source The Daily Mail, and Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Cosmopolitan magazine.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Green left The Daily Express in 1996, to begin work which in the publication of her first book, Straight Talking seven months later,[1][5] for which there was a bidding war,[1] and which became a best-seller.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The book launched her career as "the queen of chick lit".[6] Her novels include Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans (1998),[1] Life Swap (UK; Swapping Lives in the US, 2006),[1] Second Chance (2007),[1] The Beach House (2008),[1] and Saving Grace (2015),[1] five of seventeen novels through 2016 that became New York Times best-sellers.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Script error: No such module "Unsubst". As of 2014, Green had over 10 million books in print,[1] and many global best-sellers.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". "Jane Green" is the name she continued to use in her writing career, including after she married Ian Warburg of the Warburg banking family, her second spouse,[1] and legally took his name.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Green has taught at writers' conferences,[1] and writes for various publications including Cosmopolitan magazine,[1] The Sunday Times,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The Daily Telegraph,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Parade magazine,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and The Huffington Post.[1] A graduate of the French Culinary Institute, she is publishing a cookbook, Good Taste.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". As of this date,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Green is also writing as a weekly column for The Lady magazine in the United Kingdom.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Her contribution of an e-book on the marriages of English royals for ABC News, Green became an ABC News Radio correspondent, and covered the 2011 wedding of "Kate" Middleton to England's Prince William.[1]
Green contributed a story on the virtue of marital fidelity for The Moth Radio Hour, which was recorded in November 2015, and aired in September 2016.[7]
Personal life
As of 2014, Green lived in Westport, Connecticut,[1] with her second husband, investment adviser Ian Warburg (grandson of Mary and Edward Warburg), whom she married 6 March 2009. Green has four children from her first marriage[1] to American investment banker Davide Burke [8] and two stepchildren.[1]
Books
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- Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans (1998)
- Mr. Maybe (2001)
- Bookends (2002)
- Babyville: A Novel (2003)
- Straight Talking: A Novel
- Spellbound [UK] / To Have and to Hold [US]
- The Other Woman: A Novel (2005)
- This Christmas (2005)
- Life Swap [UK] / Swapping Lives [US] (2006)
- Second Chance (2007)
- The Beach House (2008)
- Girl Friday [UK] / Dune Road [US] (2009)
- The Love Verb [UK] / Promises to Keep [US] (2010)
- The Patchwork Marriage [UK] / Another Piece of my Heart [US] (2012)
- The Accidental Husband [UK] / Family Pictures [US] (2013)
- Tempting Fate (2014)
- Saving Grace (2015)
- Cat and Jemima J (novella) (2015)
- Summer Secrets (2015)
- Falling: A Love Story (2016)
- Good Taste [a food & entertaining/nonfiction book] (2016)
- The Sunshine Sisters (2017)
- The Friends We Keep (2019)
- Sister Stardust (2022)
References
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Further reading
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