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Jane Simone Mendelsohn (born 1965) is an American writer. Her novels are known for their mythic themes, poetic imagery, and allegorical content, as well as themes of female and personal empowerment. Mendelsohn's novel I Was Amelia Earhart was an international bestseller in 1996 and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction .
Jane Mendelsohn is an American author. Born and raised in New York City, she is a graduate of Yale, where she was a Connecticut Student Poet. After attending Yale Law School for a year and a half, she left to pursue writing. She began publishing book reviews in the Village Voice in 1990.
“With her devastating eye for the telling detail, her always penetrating insight, and her quiet wit, Jane Mendelsohn has written a book for the ages, an extraordinary investigation of human vanity and vulnerability, of power and disenfranchisement, of luxury and sorrow.
Jane Mendelsohn is the author of three previous novels, including I Was Amelia Earhart, a New York Times best seller and a finalist for the Orange Prize; Innocence; and American Music. A graduate of Yale, she lives in New York City with her husband and children. www.janemendelsohn.com. Books by Jane Mendelsohn. Burning Down the House.
Jane Mendelsohn was born and raised in New York City. She is a graduate of Yale. She is the author of three novels: the best-selling I Was Amelia Earhart, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and Innocence, and American Music.
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Jane Mendelsohn is an American author. Her first novel, I Was Amelia Earhart, was published by Knopf in 1996 to widespread critical acclaim. It became a New York Times bestseller, was translated into many languages, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize.
Jan 1, 2001 · I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn is a historical fiction/alternate reality novel that follows aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, as they attempt to circumnavigate the globe in her Lockheed Electra 10E plane.
