![]() ![]() If you know me from my first two books, White Oleander and Paint It Black, both set in my home town of Los Angeles, you might be surprised to see a book set during the Russian Revolution. ![]() This is where I've been for the last decade-working on one novel, The Revolution of Marina M. Her novel WHITE OLEANDER was an Oprah Book Club pick and made into a motion picture. Her last novel PAINT IT BLACK was made into a feature film, available on NETFLIX. and CHIMES OF A LOST CATHEDRAL paint a portrait of a young poet coming of age during the Russian Revolution. Her current novels, THE REVOLUTION OF MARINA M. Of course, my conception of being a writer was to wear a cape and have Adventures." She has acquired a couple of capes since then, and a few adventures. "I wanted to Live, not spend my life in a library. 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. ![]() ![]() As an undergraduate at Reed College, Fitch had decided to become an historian, attracted to its powerful narratives, the scope of events, the colossal personalities, and the potency and breadth of its themes. Janet Fitch was born in Los Angeles, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of voracious readers. ![]()
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