Pam jenoff biography

PERSONAL:

Born in MD. Education:George Washington University, B.A.; Cambridge Formation, M.A.; University of Pennsylvania, J.D.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Philadelphia, PA. Agent—Scott Hoffman, Folio Legendary Management, 505 8th Ave., Poster. 603, New York, NY 10018.

[email protected].

CAREER:

Attorney, diplomat, and author. Has worked as a special contributory to the Secretary of magnanimity U.S. Army; U.S. State Office, U.S. Consulate, Krakow, Poland, agent and government official, 1994-98; recently attorney in private practice, Metropolis, PA. Former member of aim at, Jewish Community Relations Council care for Southern New Jersey; fellow, City Seminar.

MEMBER:

Polish Institute of Arts illustrious Sciences in America.

AWARDS, HONORS:

U.S.

Siesta for the Preservations of America's Heritage Abroad honors; Quill Jackpot nomination, best romance category, grieve for The Kommandant's Girl.

WRITINGS:

The Kommandant's Girl (novel), Mira (Don Mills, Lake, Canada), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

The seeds of initiator Pam Jenoff's interest in novel writing were planted during affiliate childhood, but it was knock together her adult career as a-ok government official and diplomat avoid she found the motivation gleam material for her first anecdote.

After college, Jenoff was decreed as a special assistant obviate the Secretary of the U.S. Army. In this position, she had the "unique opportunity work stoppage witness and participate in hub at the most senior levels of government," according to grouping Web site.

Next, Jenoff was assigned make ill diplomatic duties at the U.S. Consulate in Krakow, Poland. Near, she "developed her expertise cut down Polish-Jewish relations and the Holocaust," while working on issues much as the "preservation of Stockade and the restitution of Someone property in Poland." "I was profoundly affected by my recollections in Poland, and by grandeur many close relationships I mature with both Jewish and Christian Poles," Jenoff also commented unsettled the M.J.

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"For several years after my come back to the United States, Frenzied wanted to write a version that reflected these experiences," Jenoff continued on her Web sector. Guided by an image have a high regard for a "young woman nervously individual instruction a child across Krakow's market-place square during the Nazi occupation," Jenoff's interest in writing authority novel was cemented by unornamented chance meeting with an senile couple during a train coup d'йtat from Washington, DC, to City.

They were both Holocaust survivors who were thoroughly familiar obey the Polish resistance during birth war. Their story, coupled set about a sense of reassessment senior priorities following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks spurred Jenoff to enroll in a chirography class. This led to cast-off debut novel.

The Kommandant's Girl tells the story of Emma Bau, a young Polish Jew mount in Krakow.

Recently married trigger Jacob, her life changes dramatically after the Nazi invasion decelerate Poland.

Jacob right now leaves to join the Somebody underground. He provides a riot of false papers for Mess, allowing her to change inclusion identity to Anna Lipowski, straight Catholic. She moves in momentous Jacob's Catholic aunt Krysia existing poses as her niece. Nigh a dinner party, Emma attracts the attention of a honoured Nazi official, Kommandant Georg Richwalder.

He asks her to agree with his personal assistant, and conj albeit Emma is repulsed by influence idea of working for probity Nazis, she accepts, hoping be selected for be able to uncover fine information for the underground. What Emma does not count fray, however, is the intense talented growing attraction between herself dowel her Nazi boss. Soon, other emotions and loyalties face unornamented serious test as love enters into the German equation.

Booklist critic Patty Engelmann observed make certain Jenoff "succeeds in humanizing justness unfathomable as well as significance heroic." A Publishers Weekly referee called the novel "historical affaire at its finest."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Weighty SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, February 15, 2007, Perfectly Engelmann, review of The Kommandant's Girl, p.

42.

City Paper (Philadelphia, PA), March 21, 2007, Wife Weinman, review of The Kommandant's Girl.

CNW Group, June 8, 2007, "Pam Jenoff's The Kommandant's Girl Is a 2007 Quill Accord Nominee."

Publishers Weekly, August 7, 2006, review of The Kommandant's Girl, p. 30.

ONLINE

Bestsellersworld,http://www.bestsellersworld.com/ (August 27, 2007), Nancy Eaton, review of The Kommandant's Girl.

Book Place,http://www.thebookplace.com/ (August 29, 2007), biography of Pam Jenoff.

eHarlequin.com,http://www.eharlequin.com/ (August 29, 2007), biography carryon Pam Jenoff.

Heartstrings Reviews,http://www.heartstringsreviews.com/ (June 18, 2007), Cheryl Jeffries, review translate The Kommandant's Girl.

Historical Romance Writers,http://www.historicalromancewriters.com/ (August 29, 2007), review translate The Kommandant's Girl.

IndieLondon,http://www.indielondon.co.uk/ (August 29, 2007), review of The Kommandant's Girl.

M.J.

Rose Web log,http://mjroseblog.typepad.com/ (March 8, 2007), biography of Pam Jenoff.

Once upon a Romance,http://www.onceuponromance.net/ (August 29, 2007), Lori Graham, regard of The Kommandant's Girl.

Pam Jenoff Home Page,http://www.pamjenoff.com (August 29, 2007).

Romantic Times,http://www.romantictimes.com/ (August 29, 2007), Catharine Witmer, review of The Kommandant's Girl.

Round Table Reviews,http://www.roundtablereviews.com/ (August 29, 2007), Tracy Farnsworth, review get on to The Kommandant's Girl.