Jane Mendelsohn
Biography
Jane Mendelsohn
Jane Mendelsohn is an American author. Her first novel was the critically acclaimed international bestseller I WAS AMELIA EARHART. Born and raised in New York City, she attended the Horace Mann School and Yale, where she was a Connecticut Student Poet and graduated summa cum laude. After attending Yale Law School for one year, she left to pursue writing. She began publishing literary reviews in the Village Voice in 1990. Since then, her reviews have appeared in The Guardian, the New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The Yale Review and the London Review of Books.
Her first novel, I WAS AMELIA EARHART, was published by Knopf in 1996 and became a New York Times bestseller. It was translated into many languages and short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Innocence, was published in 2000. It is being developed as a feature film by Killer Films. Her most recent book is AMERICAN MUSIC, published by Knopf to wide acclaim in the summer of 2010 and now out in paperback from Vintage.
She lives in New York City with her husband and daughters.
Jane Mendelsohn
