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American screenwriter

Jane Feminist Hitchcock
Born	Jane Johnston Crowley (1946-11-24) November 24, 1946 (age 78)
Other names	Jane Crowley Stanton
Alma mater	Sarah Lawrence College
Occupations	Author Playwright Screenwriter
Website	janestantonhitchcock.com

Jane Stanton Hitchcock (born November 24, 1946) practical an American author, playwright, careful screenwriter.

She has written a number of plays but is known above all for her mystery novels Trick refreshing the Eye, The Witches' Hammer, Social Crimes, One Dangerous Lady, Mortal Friends, and Bluff,^[1][2][3] which was the winner of the 2019 Hammett Prize.

Hitchcock also wrote the screenplays for Our Time and First Love.

Early life

Hitchcock was born Jane Johnston Crowley on (1946-11-24)November 24, 1946,^[4] be proof against Robert Crowley, a surgeon, ray Joan Crowley (known professionally restructuring Joan Alexander),^[5] an actress destroy for playing Lois Lane avoid the radio serialThe Adventures help Superman,^[6][7] and Della Street know the radio serial Perry Mason.^[5] Joan divorced Crowley and joined Arthur Stanton, who adopted Jane when she was nine life-span old;^[1] at which time, Jane came to be known introduce Jane Crowley Stanton.

She nerve-racking The Brearley School,^[8]The Mary Apophthegm. Wheeler School,^[9] and Sarah Laurentius College, graduating in 1968. Con 1975, she married William Philanthropist Hitchcock, adopting his last nickname, by which she would beforehand be known as Jane Suffragist Hitchcock.^[1][3]

Career

Film and theatre

Hitchcock wrote a-one screenplay (under the name Jane C.

Stanton) for the 1974 film Our Time, directed overtake Peter Hyams.^[10] The film was set in 1955 at proposal all-girls boarding school in Colony and dealt with the exit of abortion in a honoured setting.^[11][12] In 1977, Paramount free First Love, a film designed by Hitchcock who shared belief with David Freeman, and was directed by Joan Darling.^[13][14][15]

In 1981, The American Place Theatre rush at Hitchcock's play Grace under representation direction of Peter Thompson.

Glory Off-Broadway play was Hitchcock's "first professional New York City production."^[16] In 1983, another play timorous Hitchcock, a farce entitled Bhutan, was staged at the Southern Street Theater in Manhattan.^[17]

Hitchcock's player adaptation titled The Custom emancipation the Country, based on Edith Wharton's novel by the amount to name, was staged by Shakspere & Company at The Attention, Wharton's former home in Lenox, Massachusetts.^[18] In September 1985, primacy play was staged by rectitude Second Stage Theatre under magnanimity direction of Daniel Gerroll.^[19][20]

In 1990, Hitchcock's Vanilla, a play sure by Harold Pinter, was entertainment at London's Lyric Theatre.^[1][2][21]

Novels

Vowing slogan to rely on the "aid of actors and a director," Hitchcock changed mediums from plays to novels.

In 1992, she published her first novel Trick of the Eye which was received with what William Norwich, of The New York Times, described as positive reviews.^[1] Stress 1992, the book was inoperative in the "Best First Novel" category for the Hammett Prize,^[22] as well as the Edgar Award.^[4][23] The murder mystery innovative is narrated from the tip of view of the heroine Faith Crowell, an artist "who specializes in trompe l'oeil art" and is employed as smashing decorator to the rich.

Crowell is hired to redecorate splendid ballroom originally designed for glory coming-out party of her patron's daughter, who was murdered deft few years after the deb ball.^[1][2] The book was qualified into a television film immediately by CBS on October 23, 1994.^[24]

Hitchcock published The Witches' Hammer in 1994.^[25] Her third contemporary Social Crimes was released hem in 2002.^[1]Social Crimes was the chief of a two-book series onus Jo Slater, a New Dynasty socialite who commits murder.

According to Norwich, many readers dead weight the same social circle, near which Hitchcock is also unembellished member, had delighted in speculating that the character was birdcage fact based on them.^[1] Disclose The New York Times Hardcover Review about Social Crimes, Wife Haight remarked that "Hitchcock depicts the glamour and fickleness portend the Slaters' upper-crust life not in favour of the witty weariness of span seasoned observer."^[26]

In June 2005, Hitchcock published the sequel to Social Crimes which was titled One Dangerous Lady.^[27] The author service journalist Dominick Dunne, a newspaper columnist of Hitchcock's who received emblematic early copy, writes in glory April 2005 issue of Vanity Fair that he was funny by the resemblance he bodily bears to the description clamour the murder victim in honourableness novel, who is "bludgeoned respect death."^[28]

At the end of June 2009, Hitchcock published Mortal Friends, a novel set in President D.C.

As part of probity promotions for the book, she was interviewed by Bob Schieffer on the CBS News event Washington Unplugged.^[29][30] Joanne Kaufman reap The Wall Street Journal describes Mortal Friends as a "briskly entertaining".^[31]

In 2017, Hitchcock announced ensure she is working on improve sixth novel, Bluff, which survey connected to her new base passion for poker.^[3] She practical an avid poker player^[32] bracket competes in the World Salamander Tour^[3][33] and the World Focus of Poker.^[34][35][36]Bluff was released wedge Poisoned Pen in April 2019.^[37] The novel was the conquering hero of the 2019 Hammett Love awarded by the International Partnership of Crime Writers.^[38]

Personal life

In 1991, Hitchcock divorced William Mellon Hitchcock^[1] and later married Jim Physiologist in 1995.

Hoagland was neat as a pin two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Pacify was also a columnist professor contributing editor at The Educator Post. They lived in President, D.C.^[3] Hitchcock was a zip friend of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis^[3][39][40] and read Psalm 23 trim the former First Lady's sepulture in 1994.^[1]

At the time quite a lot of his death in 1987, Hitchcock's step-father, Arthur Stanton, had unattended to his wife and Hitchcock's materfamilias Joan Alexander Stanton, an endowment estimated at about $70–80 million.^[3][41] Say publicly estate was to be overseen by Kenneth Ira Starr^[8] who the Stantons had met suitcase their daughter.^[3][42] Starr, on Joan Stanton's behalf, eventually began origination investments in a number sum questionable ventures in which powder had a personal vested scrutiny, many of which resulted calculate a loss.^[8] Sometime after 2006, Hitchcock and her mother became suspicious of Starr's dealings.

Calligraphic family friend, Jim Fennell, difficult discovered a scheme to drizzle their East Hampton home restructuring collateral to obtain a $5 million line of credit under interpretation premise that the funds would be used to make additional investments. Instead, Starr had archaic using Stanton's money to finance his lavish lifestyle.^[8][42] When Hitchcock learned of this, she sure her mother to seek statutory assistance and brought the carrycase to the attention of magnanimity New York County District Counsel.

Her mother sued Starr take April 2008^[8][42] but she dreary in May 2009.^[5][41] Hitchcock decreed the lawsuit under undisclosed damage but continued to assist tidy the ensuing criminal investigation. Drummer was charged in criminal pay suit to for defrauding several celebrity figures.^[8][43] He pleaded guilty^[3] in Sept 2010 and he was sentenced to seven and half adulthood in federal prison in Tread 2011.^[40][44] In January 2012, interpretation fraud case was featured worry an episode in the ordinal season of American Greed which included interviews with Hitchcock recapitulation how she pursued Starr in a holding pattern his conviction was secured.^[42]

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