Jane Alison

Born in Canberra in 1961,{{Cite web|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1487364|title=Alison, Jane (1961-) - People and organisations|via=Trove|language=en|access-date=2019-06-28}} Alison spent two years in Australia as a small child, growing up mainly in the United States as a child of diplomatic parents. She attended public schools in Washington, D.C., and then earned a B.A. in classics from Princeton University[http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/web_exclusives/features/features_35.html Jane Alison '83 discusses her first novel, The Love-Artist] in 1983. Before writing fiction, she worked as an administrator for the National Endowment for the Humanities,[http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/04/1018/3a.shtml Jane Alison, a concentrator in classics and a member of the class of 1983, used her training in Latin and Greek to get a first job at the National Endowment for the Humanities] as a production artist for the Washington City Paper, as an editor for the Miami New Times, and as a proposal and speech writer for Tulane University. She also worked as a freelance editor and illustrator before attending Columbia University to study creative writing.

Alison's first novel, The Love-Artist, was published in 2001 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux[http://us.macmillan.com/author/janealison Farrar, Straus & Giroux] and has been translated into seven languages. It was followed by The Marriage of the Sea, a New York Times Notable Book[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE4DF113AF934A35751C1A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all An intricate, elegant novel that ponders the connections among love, illusion and fidelity in the permutations of eight central characters behaving in two romantic and romanticized cities, New Orleans and Venice.] of 2003. Natives and Exotics, from 2005 was one of that summer's recommended readings by Alan Cheuse[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4701145 Alan Cheuse: An Armful of Books for Summer] of National Public Radio.[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4664336 National Public Radio Excerpt: 'Natives and Exotics'] Her short fiction and critical writing have recently appeared in Seed; Five Points; Postscript: Essays on Film and the Humanities; and The Germanic Review. She has also written several biographies for children and co-edited with Harold Bloom a critical series on women writers. She has taught writing and literature at Columbia University, Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, and for writers groups in Geneva, Switzerland. She also participated in an on-line MOOC course for University of Virginia.[https://www.coursera.org/learn/historical-fiction/lecture/QmNrF/some-challenges-in-historical-fiction-writing Some challenges in historical fiction writing - Poetry and Exile in Ancient Rome: Jane Alison] Alison lived in Karlsruhe, Germany for 10 years, then moved to Miami, Florida in 2007 and began teaching in the MFA Creative Writing program at the University of Miami.

• The Sisters Antipodes, {{ISBN|0-15-101280-6}} (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009)

• The Love-Artist: A Novel, {{ISBN|0-312-42006-4}} (Picador, 2002)
• The Marriage of the Sea, {{ISBN|0-374-19941-8}} (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition, 2003)
• Natives and Exotics, {{ISBN|0-15-603247-3}} (Harvest Books; 1st edition, 2006)
• Nine Island, {{ISBN|978-1-936787-12-8}} (Catapult, 2016)
• Villa E: A Novel (Liveright Publishing/ WW Notion, 2024), a fictionalized account of the lives of two leading figures of 20th century modernist architecture movement, Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier, set in the French Riviera region.

• Change Me: Stories of Sexual Transformation from Ovid, Oxford U. P.

• Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative, {{ISBN|978-1948226134}} (Catapult, 2019)

• [http://www.janealisonauthor.com/ Jane Alison's Home Page]
• [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE3DD1F30F937A15757C0A9679C8B63&scp=13&sq=jane+alison&st=nyt Artfully as He Writes: New York Times review of The Love Artist]
• [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E0DE163EF936A15756C0A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=The%20Marriage%20of%20the%20Sea&st=cse Fluid Dynamics: New York Times review of The Marriage of the Sea]
• [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E1D91730F936A25756C0A9639C8B63 Transplants: New York Times review of Natives and Exotics]

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