Jane Vandenburgh

Jane Vandenburgh, the author of two novels, Failure to Zigzag, and The Physics of Sunset, Her memoir, A Pocket History of Sex in the 20th Century, has just been published. Kirkus calls it a “tour-de-force,” saying it’s “exquisitely written,” and is “awash with poignant, moving details.” She lives in Point Richmond, California.

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Jane Vandenburgh is a fifth-generation Californian, who says, “My writing concerns itself with place — both temporal and geographic — and how place entwines with personal history. I’m interested in what’s its been to be a Westerner and a female and a member of Generation Huge, the 77 million who came of age just as the Civil Rights and antiwar movements were causing the culture of the U.S. to drastically change.”

She has taught literature and writing at U.C. Davis, at Georgetown and at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, and will be next year’s Writer-in-Residence at St. Mary’s in Moraga, California. She’ll publish her long-awaited book on the craft of writing the longer narrative called The Architecture of the Novel in January, 2010.

Married and the mother of two children, she is also the author of the novels, Failure to Zigzag and The Physics of Sunset. She lives in Point Richmond, California.

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