Julia Reed's "Publishing's New Starlets" (
U. S. News & World Report, 1 December 1986) was one of the first mainstream articles to afford Janowitz wide attention, and in this article Janowitz offers an apt description of the nature of her work: "I'm trying to record social mores of the time, and I don't feel qualified to offer solutions. This is just something that I saw over and over in the small world I live in, and I wrote it down."
Janowitz was born on 12 April 1957 in San Francisco, California, to highly successful parents. Her father, Julian Frederick Janowitz, was a psychiatrist; her mother, Phyllis Winer Janowitz, was a poet and professor. Janowitz attended Barnard College, where she received her B.A. in 1977. While at Barnard, she was awarded the Breadloaf Writer's Conference Prize in 1975 as well the Elizabeth Janeway Fiction Prize in 1976 and 1977. In 1977 she was also awarded the Amy Loveman Prize for poetry. She earned an M.A. in 1979 from Hollins College, where she was awarded an institutional fellowship. Upon completing her studies at Hollins, she attended the Yale University School of Drama from 1980 to 1981. She moved on to Columbia University and was awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1982, 1986), the CCLM/General Electric Foundation Award (1984), and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Award (1985).
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