Jane Hamilton Author & Illustrator

Jane Hamilton is the author of The Book of Ruth, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction and A Map of the World, both selected for Oprah Winfrey's influential book club. Her most recent novels are The Short History of a Prince, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Disobedience and When Madeline Was Young. She lives with her husband and children on an apple farm in Wisconsin.