Jane Green (author)


Jane Green is an English novelist based in the United States. As of 2014, Green's books had sold in excess of 10 million copies globally, with translations of them appearing in thirty-one languages. She has been described as "ne of the first of the chick lit" authors, and as a founding author of the form of fiction sometimes referred to as "mum lit."
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Biography

Jane Green was born in London, England, on 31 May 1968. She attended South Hampstead High School, and went on to study fine art at Aberystwyth University.

Career

Green was employed by Granada TV as a publicist in her early 20s. She continued working as a journalist throughout her twenties, writing women's features for publications including The Daily Express.
Green left The Daily Express in 1996, to begin work which in the publication of her first book, Straight Talking, seven months later, for which there was a bidding war. The book launched her career as "the queen of chick lit". As of 2014, Green had over 10 million books in print. "Jane Green" is the name she continued to use in her writing career, including after she married her second spouse, Ian Warburg of the Warburg banking family.
Green has taught at writers' conferences, and writes for various publications including Cosmopolitan magazine and The Huffington Post. 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.
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.

Personal life

Green is now divorced after living in Westport, Connecticut, with her second husband, investment adviser Ian Warburg, whom she married 6 March 2009. Green has four children from her first marriage to American investment banker David Burke and two stepchildren.

Books