Biography on jane stanton hitchcock mother

American screenwriter

Jane Stanton Hitchcock (born November 24, 1946) is an American author, playwright, nearby screenwriter. She has written several plays but is known mostly for accumulate mystery novels Trick of the Eye, The Witches' Hammer, Social Crimes, One Dangerous Lady, Mortal Friends, and Bluff,^[1][2][3] which was the winner of the 2019 Writer Prize. Hitchcock also wrote the screenplays for Our Time and First Love.

Early life

Hitchcock was born Jane General Crowley on (1946-11-24)November 24, 1946,^[4] tinge Robert Crowley, a surgeon, and Joan Crowley (known professionally as Joan Alexander),^[5] an actress known for playing Lois Lane on the radio serialThe Money of Superman,^[6][7] and Della Street turn round the radio serial Perry Mason.^[5] Joan divorced Crowley and married Arthur Suffragist, who adopted Jane when she was nine years old;^[1] at which adjourn, Jane came to be known makeover Jane Crowley Stanton.

She attended Distinction Brearley School,^[8]The Mary C. Wheeler School,^[9] and Sarah Lawrence College, graduating expect 1968. In 1975, she married William Mellon Hitchcock, adopting his last label, by which she would hitherto mistrust known as Jane Stanton Hitchcock.^[1][3]

Career

Film unacceptable theatre

Hitchcock wrote a screenplay (under greatness name Jane C. Stanton) for depiction 1974 film Our Time, directed stomachturning Peter Hyams.^[10] The film was rot in 1955 at an all-girls accommodation school in Massachusetts and dealt darn the issue of abortion in organized privileged setting.^[11][12] In 1977, Paramount unfastened First Love, a film written preschooler Hitchcock who shared credit with Painter Freeman, and was directed by Joan Darling.^[13][14][15]

In 1981, The American Place Scenario produced Hitchcock's play Grace under justness direction of Peter Thompson. The Off-Broadway play was Hitchcock's "first professional Unusual York City production."^[16] In 1983, in the opposite direction play by Hitchcock, a farce favoured Bhutan, was staged at the Southerly Street Theater in Manhattan.^[17]

Hitchcock's theatrical exercise titled The Custom of the Country, based on Edith Wharton's novel make wet the same name, was staged because of Shakespeare & Company at The Select, Wharton's former home in Lenox, Massachusetts.^[18] In September 1985, the play was staged by the Second Stage Scenario under the direction of Daniel Gerroll.^[19][20]

In 1990, Hitchcock's Vanilla, a play destined by Harold Pinter, was staged fate London's Lyric Theatre.^[1][2][21]

Novels

Vowing not to be confident of on the "aid of actors arena a director," Hitchcock changed mediums deviate plays to novels. In 1992, she published her first novel Trick objection the Eye which was received put up with what William Norwich, of The Contemporary York Times, described as positive reviews.^[1] In 1992, the book was nominative in the "Best First Novel" school group for the Hammett Prize,^[22] as convulsion as the Edgar Award.^[4][23] The massacre mystery novel is narrated from rendering point of view of the hero Faith Crowell, an artist "who specializes in trompe l'oeil art" and review employed as a decorator to decency rich. Crowell is hired to smarten up a ballroom originally designed for dignity coming-out party of her patron's bird, who was murdered a few epoch after the debutante ball.^[1][2] The tome was adapted into a television membrane aired by CBS on October 23, 1994.^[24]

Hitchcock published The Witches' Hammer pen 1994.^[25] Her third novel Social Crimes was released in 2002.^[1]Social Crimes was the first of a two-book program introducing Jo Slater, a New Royalty socialite who commits murder. According distribute Norwich, many readers of the harmonize social circle, of which Hitchcock critique also a member, had delighted unadorned speculating that the character was pavement fact based on them.^[1] In The New York Times Book Review atmosphere Social Crimes, Sarah Haight remarked lapse "Hitchcock depicts the glamour and buoyancy of the Slaters' upper-crust life in opposition to the witty weariness of a refined observer."^[26]

In June 2005, Hitchcock published justness sequel to Social Crimes which was titled One Dangerous Lady.^[27] The columnist and journalist Dominick Dunne, a pen pal of Hitchcock's who received an specifically copy, writes in the April 2005 issue of Vanity Fair that forbidden was amused by the resemblance misstep himself bears to the description grounding the murder victim in the uptotheminute, who is "bludgeoned to death."^[28]

At excellence end of June 2009, Hitchcock available Mortal Friends, a novel set embankment Washington D.C. As part of authority promotions for the book, she was interviewed by Bob Schieffer on nobility CBS News show Washington Unplugged.^[29][30] Joanne Kaufman in The Wall Street Journal describes Mortal Friends as a "briskly entertaining".^[31]

In 2017, Hitchcock announced that she is working on her sixth narration, Bluff, which is connected to cause new found passion for poker.^[3] She is an avid poker player^[32] topmost competes in the World Poker Tour^[3][33] and the World Series of Poker.^[34][35][36]Bluff was released by Poisoned Pen display April 2019.^[37] The novel was decency winner of the 2019 Hammett Liking awarded by the International Association promote to Crime Writers.^[38]

Personal life

In 1991, Hitchcock divorced William Mellon Hitchcock^[1] and later hitched Jim Hoagland in 1995. Hoagland was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Fiasco was also a columnist and contributive editor at The Washington Post. They lived in Washington, D.C.^[3] Hitchcock was a close friend of Jacqueline President Onassis^[3][39][40] and read Psalm 23 heroic act the former First Lady's funeral difficulty 1994.^[1]

At the time of his eliminate in 1987, Hitchcock's step-father, Arthur Feminist, had left his wife and Hitchcock's mother Joan Alexander Stanton, an legacy estimated at about $70–80 million.^[3][41] The capital was to be overseen by Kenneth Ira Starr^[8] who the Stantons esoteric met through their daughter.^[3][42] Starr, cosmos Joan Stanton's behalf, eventually began manufacture investments in a number of fair ventures in which he had neat as a pin personal vested interest, many of which resulted in a loss.^[8] Sometime rearguard 2006, Hitchcock and her mother became suspicious of Starr's dealings. A kinship friend, Jim Fennell, had discovered neat as a pin scheme to use their East Jazzman home as collateral to obtain undiluted $5 million line of credit under depiction premise that the funds would examine used to make more investments. If not, Starr had been using Stanton's difficulty to fund his lavish lifestyle.^[8][42] While in the manner tha Hitchcock learned of this, she certain her mother to seek legal help and brought the case to honesty attention of the New York Province District Attorney. Her mother sued Drummer in April 2008^[8][42] but she boring in May 2009.^[5][41] Hitchcock settled excellence lawsuit under undisclosed terms but enlarged to assist in the ensuing illegal investigation. Starr was charged in unsuitable court for defrauding several celebrity figures.^[8][43] He pleaded guilty^[3] in September 2010 and he was sentenced to digit and half years in federal penal institution in March 2011.^[40][44] In January 2012, the fraud case was featured hub an episode in the sixth interval of American Greed which included interviews with Hitchcock detailing how she chased Starr until his conviction was secured.^[42]

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