Jean Hanff Korelitz
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Jean Hanff Korelitzis an American novelist and essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 May 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.
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A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.
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I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.
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I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.
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Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.