Jane Purr

Jane Roper is an American author known for her novels The Society of Shame (a finalist for the Thurber Prize in American Humor) and Eden Lake, as well as the memoir Double Time: How I Survived–and Mostly Thrived–Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is also a freelance copywriter, brand strategist, book coach, and editor. She currently lives just north of Boston with her husband and two cats.