Jean Hanff Korelitz was raised in New York City and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge.
She is the author of the novels A Jury of Her Peers (1996), The Sabbathday River (1999), The White Rose (2005), and Admission (2009), as well as a children's novel, Interference Powder (2003) and a book of poems, The Properties of Breath (1988). A new novel, You Should Have Known, was published in early 2014.
Ms. Korelitz has contributed articles and essays to many magazines, and to the anthologies Modern Love, Because I Said So, Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write about Real Sex (edited by Erica Jong), and What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-One Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (to be published by Algonquin Books in the spring of 2013).
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