Janey Bennett
Author of The Pale Surface of Things
Works by Janey Bennett
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Bennett, Janey
- Birthdate
- 1938-12-20
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- San Diego, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Bellingham, Washington, USA
Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada - Education
- University of California, Los Angeles (BA)
Sci-ARC (MA) - Occupations
- editor
cellist
dressage instructor
novelist - Relationships
- Banham, Reyner (teacher)
- Awards and honors
- Best Book (Multicultural Fiction, 2007)
- Short biography
- Janey Bennett was born in San Diego, California, and graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in theatre and broadcast. She also has a master’s degree in Architectural History from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Her thesis advisor was British architectural historian Reyner Banham. She has enjoyed colorful and varied careers, from radio announcer to horse trainer and drama critic. She spent five winters teaching English and literacy to Buddhist nuns in Thailand. Her writings on architecture have been published in the USA and Finland, where she held a Fulbright Fellowship. She is the author of the 2007 novel The Pale Surface of Things, and the nonfiction work The Fantastic Seashell of the Mind: The Architecture of Mark Mills (2017).
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- Works
- 3
- Members
- 30
- Popularity
- #449,942
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 2
- Favorited
- 1