![]() This is my internal landscape.”Īfter decades of reading Russian literature and history and a few trips to the country, Fitch-who studied history at Reed College-has distilled that fascination into her first work of historical fiction, The Revolution of Marina M., an epic page-turner and part one of a two-volume tale set during the Russian Revolution. “I’m a pretty intense person myself,” Fitch explains during a call to her home in Los Angeles, “and a lot of the literature we got as kids was pretty pallid-it didn’t suit me at all.” Opening Crime and Punishment, she says with a laugh, “was like, OK, here we are. ![]() It started back when the writer, 62, was attending junior high in Los Angeles and fell in love with Crime and Punishment, launching a deep dive into the waters of Russian literature. ![]() Here’s something that may come as a surprise for fans of Paint It Black and the Oprah-approved White Oleander: Bestselling novelist Janet Fitch has a secret passion for Russia. ![]()
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