Janet Lewis

Info

Role

Writer

Date of birth

08/16/1899

Date of death

12/01/1998

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Janet Lewis

Biography

Author and educator Janet Lewis was educated at the Lewis Institute in Chicago (AA) and the University of Chicago (Ph.B), and was a Guggenheim fellow. She lectured at Stanford University and taught short-story writing at the University of Missouri and Denver University. She joined ASCAP in 1956 and authored the novels "The Invasion", "The Wife of Martin Guerre", "Against a Darkening Sky", "The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron", "Goodbye, Son and Other Stories", "The Trial of Soren Qvist" (awarded a Gold Medal by the San Francisco Commonwealth Club) and "Poems, 1924-44" (awarded a Shelly Memorial award), and the opera "The Wife of Martin Guerre".