“The
wonder of reading. When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small
- you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian
horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder. It takes you anywhere.” – Janet
Fitch
Author of the Oprah's Book Club
novel White Oleander, which also became a hit film, Fitch was born in
Los Angeles on Nov. 9, 1955, and grew up in a family of voracious readers, even
though, “none of them were literary, or writers.” 
“My father was an engineer - he
wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's
great readers and he instilled that in me.”
“My father was an engineer - he
wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's
great readers and he instilled that in me.”
Planning to be a historian because
of history’s powerful narratives, scope of events, colossal personalities, and
the potency and breadth of its themes, she found herself, instead, drawn
to writing about things historical and so she did.
Fitch regularly teaches fiction
writing at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers summer workshops and has taught at
a number of colleges and universities.
Her short fiction and essays have appeared in magazines and newspapers
throughout Southern California and she has produced several more novels,
including Paint It Black – named for the Rolling Stones’ song (and also made
into a movie).
“I write all the time,” she said,
“whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already
writing.”
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