Jessica Francis Kane

Jessica Francis Kane is an American short story writer, essayists, and novelist. Kane's second novel, Rules for Visiting (2019) was a national bestseller. Quotes I write what I am interested in, and hope it will find an audience. I don’t know that it would make a lot of sense to do it the other way around. as quoted by Robert Birnbaum in: An Interview With Jessica Francis Kane April 12, 2013 Virginia Quarterly Review https://www.vqronline.org/interviews-special-projects/interview-jessica-francis-kane Consider the writer as houseguest. Is it a good idea to invite someone into your home whose occupation it is to observe everything? Beware the Writer as Houseguest The New York Times July 12, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/books/review/jessica-francis-kane-writer-houseguest.html Scholes mentioned and quoted from the “Following the Plot” essay, so the first thing I did was get my hands on a copy of The Afterlife: Essays and Criticism by Penelope Fitzgerald so I could read the essay in full. I guess mostly simply, I took Fitzgerald at her word. In that essay she says letters had arrived that dangled the possibility of an inheritance, and she decided to make the trip to Mexico to see about it. She and Penelope Fitzgerald#Biography Desmond were quite desperate at that point, living beyond their means in London, editing a failing literary journal, with two young children and a third on the way. ...Penelope and Desmond stayed together until his death in 1976. Her first novel The Golden Child (novel) The Golden Child was written to entertain him as he declined. Despite all the problems, I think they must have loved each other deeply. as quoted by Jane Ciabattari in: Jessica Francis Kane on Fictionalizing Penelope Fitzgerald’s Mexican Sojourn: Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Fonseca” August 12, 2025 Literary Hub https://lithub.com/jessica-francis-kane-on-fictionalizing-penelope-fitzgeralds-mexican-sojurn/ Follow your obsessions. It feels lonely and crazy sometimes, but if you believe in them other people will too, and you will create something enduring. as quoted by Robert Lee Brewer in: Jessica Francis Kane: Follow Your Obsessions (interview) August 13, 2025 Writer's Digest https://www.writersdigest.com/jessica-francis-kane-follow-your-obsessions External links Jessica Francis Kane's website Category:Living people Category:Essayists from the United States Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Short story writers from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Yale University alumni