Ep. 156 Jane Hamilton
About this episode
Marion Roach Smith interviews author Jane Hamilton about her writing journey and latest book.
Today my guest is writer and author Jane Hamilton. Her first novel, The Book of Ruth, won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel and was a selection of the Oprah Book Club. Her second novel, A Map of the World, was an international bestseller, and the fine novels kept on coming so that now comes the publication of her eighth book, The Phoebe Variations, just out from Zibby Publishing. Listen in as we discuss how writers choose what to explore. The QWERTY podcast is brought to you by the book The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life. Read it, and begin your own journey to writing what you know. To learn more, join The Memoir Project free newsletter list and keep up to date on all our free webinars, instructive posts and online classes in how to write memoir, as well as our talented, available memoir editors and memoir coaches, podcast guests and more.
People in this episode
Guest: Jane Hamilton
Topics covered
- writing
- literature
- publishing
Keywords
- The Book of Ruth
- A Map of the World
- The Phoebe Variations
- Oprah Book Club
Mentioned in this episode
Products: The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life
Books & works: The Book of Ruth, the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation, A Map of the World, The Phoebe Variations, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life
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