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Jane Mendelsohn (born 1965) is an American writer. Her novels are known for their mythic themes, poetic imagery, and allegorical content, as well as themes of female and personal empowerment. Mendelsohn's novel I Was Amelia Earhart was an international bestseller in 1996 and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Mendelsohn was born in New York City, the daughter of a psychiatrist and an art historian. She attended Horace Mann School in New York, and she is a graduate of Yale University 1987, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. She attended Yale Law School for one and a half years before beginning a career as a writer/journalist. In her twenties, she worked as an assistant to the literary editor at The Village Voice and as a tutor at Yale University. Mendelsohn is married and lives in New York with her husband, filmmaker Nick Davis, and two daughters, Lily and Grace.