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Jane Hamilton is an American novelist who was born on July 13, 1957 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. She is best known for her novels The Book of Ruth (1988) and A Map of the World (1994).
Hamilton attended the University of Iowa, where she earned a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. She then went on to earn an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa.
Hamilton has written several novels, including The Book of Ruth (1988), A Map of the World (1994), Disobedience (2000), and When Madeline Was Young (2006). She has also written a memoir, The Short History of a Prince (1998).
Hamilton has won numerous awards for her writing, including the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
As of 2021, Jane Hamilton is 63 years old and has a net worth of $2 million.
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Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. |
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United States |
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Timeline
Hamilton was accepted as an intern with Dell Publishing for Children after college and set out for New York with intention of becoming an editor. She reports that she stopped to visit a friend’s apple orchard in Rochester, Wisconsin. It was there that she met her future husband, a partner in the orchard operation. Soon after, she moved to the orchard farmhouse, which allowed her the freedom to write during the off-season for harvesting.
In a November 2006 interview with The Journal Times, Hamilton talked about her early inspiration for writing novels. As a student at Carleton College, she overheard a professor say she would write a novel one day. Hamilton had written only two short stories for the professor's class. Overhearing the conversation gave her confidence. "It had a lot more potency, the fact that I overheard it, rather than his telling me directly," she said.
In 1994, she published A Map of the World, which was adapted for a film in 1999 and the same year was also an Oprah's Book Club selection. Her third novel, The Short History of a Prince, published in 1998, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998. This book was also shortlisted for the 1999 Orange Prize. In 2000, Hamilton was named a Notable Wisconsin Author by the Wisconsin Library Association.
Her first novel, The Book of Ruth, was published in 1988 and won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, and the Wisconsin Library Association Banta Book Award in 1989. The Book of Ruth was an Oprah's Book Club selection in 1996, and it was the basis for a 2004 television film of the same title.
Despite rejection from the graduate programs she applied to, Hamilton kept writing in her spare time. In 1983, her short story, “My Own Earth” launched her career when an intern pulled it from a slush pile and passed it up to Harper’s Magazine editor, Helen Rogan. The publication of “My Own Earth” was soon followed by more success when her short story “Aunt Marj’s Happy Ending” was published by Harper’s Magazine in December 1983. "Aunt Marj's Happy Ending" later appeared in The Best American Short Stories 1984
Jane Hamilton grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, the youngest of five children. She won prizes for poetry and short stories throughout high school and college, but was always told that being a writer would not be a viable career. Because she was not a good speller, she did not believe she could be a copy editor or editor either. Hamilton graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1979 as an English major.
