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About Janet Fitch

Janet Fitch (born November 9, 1955) is an American author. She wrote the novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College.

Fitch was born in Los Angeles, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of voracious readers. As an undergraduate at Reed College, Fitch had decided to become a historian, attracted to its powerful narratives, the scope of events, the colossal personalities, and the potency and breadth of its themes. But when she won a student exchange to Keele University in England, where her passion for Russian history led her, she awoke in the middle of the night on her twenty-first birthday with the revelation she wanted to write fiction.

Fitch was a faculty member in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, where she taught fiction.

Janet Fitch writes about Fiction, Young women, Young women, fiction, Soviet union, history, revolution, 1917-1921, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, and Fiction, general. Their best-known work is White oleander.

On FindMyTBR we track 5 books by Janet Fitch, 5 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Chimes of a Lost Cathedral, Paint It Black (Abridged), and The Revolution of Marina M.. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.