Pam Jenoff is an American author, lawyer, and professor of law at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

. She writes both love stories and historical novels, some of which have been nominated for awards and many of which have been bestsellers. She is still currently writing and lives with her 3 children and husband in New Jersey. Her books are highly recommended and have won prizes before.

Biography

A resident of

Haddonfield, New Jersey :''Not the fictional Illinois town from the Halloween film series.'' Haddonfield is a borough located in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough had a total population of 11,593,

, Jenoff grew up in Evesham Township, where she attended Cherokee High School. Her mother "grew up in South Philadelphia in the 1940s"; "my dad’s family is from Atlantic City and my grandparents and great grandparents owned hotels and restaurants there in the 1930s and 40s." Her bachelor's degree is from

George Washington University The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Chartered in 1821 by the United States Congress, GWU is the largest Higher educat ...

and her M.A. (in history) is from

Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III of England, Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world' ...

. Her J.D. degree is from the

University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and oldes ...

. A former Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army and a State Department officer, she lives in

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and currently teaches evidence,

employment law Labour laws (also known as labor laws or employment laws) are those that mediate the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade unions, and the government. Collective labour law relates to the tripartite relationship between employee, ...

, and

legal writing Legal writing involves the analysis of fact patterns and presentation of arguments in documents such as legal memoranda and briefs. One form of legal writing involves drafting a balanced analysis of a legal problem or issue. Another form of lega ...

at the Camden campus of

Rutgers Law School Rutgers Law School is the law school of Rutgers University, with classrooms in Newark and Camden, New Jersey. It is the largest public law school and the 10th largest law school, overall, in the United States. Each class in the three-year J.D. pr ...

. She had just begun practicing law at a private firm when the 9/11 attacks spurred her to pursue a personal goal of becoming a writer.

Books

''The Kommandant's Girl'' (2007) was nominated for a

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. ''

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'' described ''The Things We Cherished'' (2012) as "a timeless love story." Harlequin MIRA released ''The Other Girl'' on September 1, 2014. Although Jenoff's State Department experience was in Poland, she says that she "wrote all my earlier books set in Europe

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living in America" and her first novel set in the US while living in Poland. ''The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach'' was begun some 20 years before its completion; Jenoff acknowledges Louisa May Alcott's '' Little Women'' as an inspiration for this novel. ''The Lost Girls of Paris'' (2019) covers much the same ground as Susan Elia MacNeal's ''The Paris Spy'' (2017). Both novels rely on the history of

Vera Atkins Vera May Atkins (15 June 1908 – 24 June 2000) was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer who worked in the France Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War. Early life Atkins wa ...

and the women she recruited and trained to work for Britain's

Special Operations Executive The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British World War II organisation. It was officially formed on 22 July 1940 under Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton, from the amalgamation of three existing secret organisations. Its pu ...

during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

List of works

;Novels * ''The Kommandant's Girl'' (The Kommandant's Girl, #1) (2007) * ''The Diplomat's Wife'' ((The Kommandant's Girl, #2) (2008) * ''Almost Home'' (2008) * ''A Hidden Affair'' * ''The Things We Cherished'' * ''The Ambassador's Daughter'' (Prequel to ''The Kommandant's Girl'') (2013) * ''The Winter Guest'' (2014) * ''The Other Girl'' (2014) * ''The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach'' (2015) * ''The Orphan's Tale'' (2017) * ''The Lost Girls of Paris'' (2019) * ''The Woman with the Blue Star'' (2021) * ''Code Name Sapphire'' (2023)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jenoff, Pam American romantic fiction writers American historical fiction writers Rutgers School of Law–Camden faculty Alumni of the University of Cambridge Cherokee High School (New Jersey) alumni George Washington University alumni Living people Lawyers from Philadelphia People from Evesham Township, New Jersey People from Haddonfield, New Jersey University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni Writers from Philadelphia Year of birth missing (living people)