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Jane Alison Jane Alison i(A80768 works by)
Born: Established: 1961 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ;
Gender: Female
Expatriate assertion
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'Jane Alison was born in Canberra, Australia, and grew up in the Australian and U.S. foreign services. She attended public schools in Washington, D.C., and earned a B.A. in classics from Princeton University. Before writing fiction, she worked as an administrator for the National Endowment for the Humanities, as a production artist for the Washington City Paper, as an editor for the Miami New Times, and as a proposal and speechwriter for Tulane University. She also worked as a freelance editor and illustrator before attending Columbia University to study creative writing.'

In addition to her novels and a memoir, Alison has also written 'several biographies for children and co-edited with Harold Bloom a critical series on women writers. She has taught writing and literature at Columbia, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, and for writers groups in Geneva, Switzerland; she lives in Germany and teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Queens University, Charlotte.

Source: Jane Alison's website, http://www.janealison.com/
Sighted: 07/04/2009

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