Janet Lewis

Author and educator Janet Lewis was educated at the Lewis Institute in Chicago (AA) and the University of Chicago (Ph.B), and was a Guggenheim fellow. She lectured at Stanford University and taught short-story writing at the University of Missouri and Denver University. She joined ASCAP in 1956 and authored the novels "The Invasion", "The Wife of Martin Guerre", "Against a Darkening Sky", "The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron", "Goodbye, Son and Other Stories", "The Trial of Soren Qvist" (awarded a Gold Medal by the San Francisco Commonwealth Club) and "Poems, 1924-44" (awarded a Shelly Memorial award), and the opera "The Wife of Martin Guerre".