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Jane Lazarre (1943-2025) Writer, memoirist. Jane Lazarre was born in and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Jane Deitz Lazarre

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1943

Birth

New York County: Jane Deitz Lazarre was born in Manhattan, New York, on November 16, 1943.

1965

Other Life Event

New York County: Ms. Lazarre received a degree in English from the City College of New York in 1967.

1973

Other Life Event

New York County: Ms. Lazarre received a master’s degree in anthropology from the New School in 1973.

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Other Life Event

New York County: Ms. Lazarre taught at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School in Manhattan, New York.

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Residence

New York County: Ms. Lazarre lived most of her life in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York.

1976

Literary Work

The Mother Knot
McGraw-Hill
0070367906 / 978-0070367906
Memoir.

1980

Literary Work

On Loving Men
Dial Press
0803765185 / 978-0803765184
Memoir.

1991

Literary Work

Worlds Beyond My Control
Dutton
0525249761 / 978-0525249764
Memoir/novel.

1996

Literary Work

Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons
Duke University Press
0822318261 / 978-0822318262
Memoir.

1998

Literary Work

Wet Earth and Dreams: A Narrative of Grief and Recovery
Memoir
Nonfiction.

2017

Literary Work

The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter
Duke University Press
0822369370 / 978-0822369370
Memoir.

2021

Literary Work

Breaking Light
Hamilton Stone Editions
0990376788 / 978-0990376781
Collection of poetry.

2025

Death

New York County: Jane Lazarre died at her home in Manhattan, New York, on June 19, 2025.

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