Jane Mendelsohn

Jane Mendelsohn (born 1965) is an American author. She was graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale University in 1987, and attended Yale Law School for one year before beginning a career as a writer/journalist. She has worked as an assistant to the literary editor at The Village Voice and as a tutor at Yale University. Mendelsohn is married and lives in New York with her husband, filmmaker Nick Davis.

Books Authored

Image of Burning Down the House: A Novel
Author(s):
Jane Mendelsohn
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction, Thriller, Psychological Thriller

Burning Down the House: A novel

March 14, 2016
Reviewed by: 
Ariel Balter

Jane Mendelsohn’s Burning Down the House is a soap opera of a novel that aspires to be a Greek tragedy, an epic, or a saga of the fall of a family empire . . .

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Image of American Music
Author(s):
Jane Mendelsohn
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction

American Music

October 1, 2010
Reviewed by: 
Joseph Arellano

“The memory was like an explosion and he was inside it, living through it and it surrounded him and slowly he breathed life into it. . . . This was where he was headed. He was entering someplace.

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