Jane Hamilton
Jane Hamilton is the author of The Book of Ruth, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction, and A Map of the World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and named one of the top ten books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, the Miami Herald, and People. Both The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World have been selections of Oprah's Book Club. Her following work, The Short History of a Prince, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998, her novel Disobedience was published in 2000, her novel When Madeline Was Young was a Washington Post Best Book of 2006, and her last novel Laura Rider's Masterpiece was published by Grand Central Publishing in 2009. She lives in and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin.
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Jane Hamilton is the author of The Book of Ruth, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction, and A Map of the World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and named one of the top ten books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, the Miami Herald, and People. Both The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World have been selections of Oprah's Book Club. Her following work, The Short History of a Prince, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998, her novel Disobedience was published in 2000, her novel When Madeline Was Young was a Washington Post Best Book of 2006, and her last novel Laura Rider's Masterpiece was published by Grand Central Publishing in 2009. She lives in and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin.
