Jane Green | |
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Born | [1] London, England | 31 May 1968
Other names | Jane Green Warburg |
Occupation | Author |
Years active | 1998–present |
Spouse(s) | first, David Burke; second, Ian Warburg |
Children | 6, of whom 2 are stepchildren |
Jane Green (born in 1968) [2] also known by her married name, Jane Green Warburg, [1] is an English-born American author whose works of fiction are American and international best-sellers. [2] As of 2014, Green's books had sold in excess of 10 million copies globally, with translations of them appearing in thirty-one languages, [2] making her a leading author, globally, of commercial women's fiction.[ not verified in body] With regard to genres, she has been described as "[o]ne of the first of the chick lit" authors, [2] [3] [4] and as a founding author of the form of fiction sometimes referred to as "mum lit." [3]
Jane Green was born in London, England, on 31 May 1968. [1] She attended South Hampstead High School, and went on to study fine art at Aberystwyth University. [2] [1] and Ravensbourne School of Art.
Green was employed by Granada TV as a publicist in her early 20s. [2] She continued working as a journalist throughout her twenties,[ when?] writing women's features for publications including The Daily Express, [2] [5][ better source needed] The Daily Mail, and [ citation needed] Cosmopolitan magazine.[ citation needed]
Green left The Daily Express in 1996, to begin work which in the publication of her first book, Straight Talking seven months later, [2] [5] for which there was a bidding war, [2] and which became a best-seller.[ citation needed] 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), [2] Life Swap (UK; Swapping Lives in the US, 2006), [2] Second Chance (2007), [2] The Beach House (2008), [2] and Saving Grace (2015), [2] five of seventeen novels through 2016 that became New York Times best-sellers.[ verification needed][ citation needed] As of 2014, Green had over 10 million books in print, [2] and many global best-sellers.[ citation needed] "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, [2] and legally took his name.[ citation needed]
Green has taught at writers' conferences, [2] and writes for various publications including Cosmopolitan magazine, [2] The Sunday Times,[ citation needed] The Daily Telegraph,[ citation needed] Parade magazine,[ citation needed] and The Huffington Post. [2] A graduate of the French Culinary Institute, she is publishing a cookbook, Good Taste.[ full citation needed] As of this date,[ when?] Green is also writing as a weekly column for The Lady magazine in the United Kingdom.[ citation needed] 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. [2]
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]
As of 2014, Green lived in Westport, Connecticut, [2] 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 [2] to American investment banker Davide Burke [8] and two stepchildren. [2]
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