Janet Frame

Description: (Novelist, Essayist, Poet, Writer, Short Story Writer)
Initially trained to be a schoolteacher, Janet Frame later soared to fame with her short stories, poems, and her 3-part memoir, including An Angel at My Table. Misdiagnosed as schizophrenic, she spent almost a decade in mental hospitals. She wrote most of her works while in psychiatric care.

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Birthday August 28, 1924 (Virgo)
Died on January 29, 2004
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