Get to know Jane Hamilton

Jane Hamilton’s novels have won literary prizes, have been made into films, and have been international bestsellers, and two of them, The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, were selections of Oprah’s Book Club. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times; The Washington Post; Allure; O, The Oprah Magazine; Elle; and various anthologies. She lives on an apple farm in Wisconsin.

Hometown

Oak Park, IL

Fun fact

I was called Mud Dog as a child. I still am a mess. There is no point in buying nice clothes because somehow or other they always ends in ruin.

Favorite author

Willa Cather, Elena Ferrante, Paul Rudnik, for fun, M.B Goffstein; Have to include Alice Munro, William Trevor, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, the old greats. EM Forster. I'm devoted to Franzen even though so many people despise him.

Favorite place in the world

In bed with a book

Favorite place to read

In bed

Books by Jane Hamilton