Jane Lazarre is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, including memoir, journalism and essay. She is the author of the novels: Some Place Quite Unknown (Hamilton Stone Editions), Some Kind of Innocence (Dial Press), The Powers of Charlotte (Crossing Press, Painted Leaf Press), Worlds Beyond My Control (Dutton, Painted Leaf Press). She is the author of the memoirs: The Mother Knot (McGaw-Hill, Dell Paper, Beacon Press, Duke University Press); On Loving Men (Dial Press), Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons (Duke University Press), and Wet Earth and Dreams: A Narrative of Grief and Recovery (Duke University Press.) Her work has been translated and published in England, Germany, Italy and France. She has recently completed a book of poems, Bodies of Water, and the novel Inheritance, excerpts of which have appeared in the on line journals, Persimmon Tree, Hamilton Stone Review, Salt River Review, and Lilith, Summer, 2009.
Lazarre's essays, articles and reviews have been published in newspapers, magazines and journals, and collected in many anthologies over the past thirty years. Her fiction won the National Endowment for Arts Award and the New York Foundation for Arts Award in 1990. She has been keynote speaker, and extensively read her work and presented papers at universities that include Harvard University, Brown University, Yale University, and the City University of New York, and also at national conferences on literature, diversity and teaching race. She has given talks and lead workshops and seminars on race and teaching race at independent and public schools. She has presented her own work and lead panels of writers at such venues as the 92 Street Y, The Jewish Museum in New York City, and many others (a complete list of venues and titles are available upon request). In 2003 she was a featured writer in the PBS documentary, "Matters of Race," produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell. Her work has been the subject of critical works by many scholars including Susan Gubar, Jessica Benjamin, Maureen T. Reddy, Sara Ruddick, Joanne Frye and others. Authors such as Alice Walker, Tillie Olsen, Adrienne Rich, Sekou Sundiata, Philip Lopate, Grace Paley and others have written comments praising her work. Her books have been reviewed in an array of publications that include The New York Times, The Washington Post, Publisher's Weekly, and The Women's Review of Books. An interview with Lazarre regarding her work...
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