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Janice Graham was raised in Kansas and obtained her M.A. in French literature before pursuing graduate film studies at USC and English literature at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. Her screenplay Until September, a romantic comedy situated in Paris, was picked up by MGM and made into a film starring Karen Allen and Thierry Lhermitte. Her first novel, Firebird, became a New York Times and international bestseller.
After a series of contemporary women's fiction, she turned to historical fiction. Romancing Miss Bronte, written as Juliet Gael, is her novel about Charlotte Brontë. She's currently working on a novel about Mary Shelley and preparing to launch eBook editions of her early novels. After twenty years in Paris, Athens, Jerusalem, and a few other places in between, she now lives in Florence, Italy.
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You have traveled extensively, living and working in Paris, Greece and
Israel. What were you doing while you were living abroad?
I was divorced in 1972 after a four year marriage and since I had just finished
my M.A. in French and been to France on a fellowship, I decided to move to
Paris. I lived there for four years working at a variety of jobs-from sales to
tour guide to assistant to the CEO of an investment banking firm. In 1976, I
embarked on a journey to travel around the world (I never got farther than the
Middle East.) I saved up some money and I took off with a friend. Our first stop
was Athens, where I spent too much money, so I got a job at UPI and ended up
staying there for six months. Our next stop was Turkey and then on to Israel,
where I worked on a kibbutz for six months. By that time I had been gone for a
year and I felt as though I needed a focus. It was in Jerusalem that I got the
direction I was looking for-I ran into a professor from the University of
Kansas, where I had gotten my masters degree. He knew I was interested in film
and he encouraged me to return to graduate school. My next stop was Los Angeles,
where I attended film school and instantly knew that that was what I wanted to
do. I ...
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