![]() ![]() Amber Tamblyn directed a 2016 feature film based on the book. Her third novel, Paint It Black, named after the Rolling Stones song of the same name, was published in September 2006. Two of her favorite authors are Fyodor Dostoevsky and Edgar Allan Poe. White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrids journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances. įitch was a faculty member in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, where she taught fiction. 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 a historian, attracted to its powerful narratives, the scope of events, the colossal personalities, and the potency and breadth of its themes. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. įitch was born in Los Angeles, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of voracious readers. Janet Fitch, quote from White Oleander How vast was a human beings capacity for suffering. ![]() She wrote the novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. Janet Fitch (born November 9, 1955) is an American author. Fitch at the book signing tent of the 2006 Texas Book Festival ![]()
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