Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz
Korelitz at the 2014 Texas Book Festival
Occupation	Author
Alma mater	Dartmouth College
Notable works	Admission, The White Rose
Spouse	Paul Muldoon (m. 1987)
Children	2

Jean Hanff Korelitz (born May 16, 1961) is an American novelist, playwright, theater producer and essayist.

Korelitz was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from Dartmouth College with a major in English, she continued her studies at Clare College, Cambridge, where she was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal. While living in England, Korelitz met Irish poet Paul Muldoon. The couple married on August 30, 1987, and went on to have two children: Dorothy (born 1992) and Asher (born 1999). From 1990 until 2013 on, they lived in Princeton, New Jersey, where Muldoon has long taught Creative Writing. They now reside in Korelitz's native New York City.

In 2013 Korelitz created BOOKTHEWRITER, a New York City based service that represents authors who are available to visit book groups in and around New York City. BOOKTHEWRITER's author list includes novelists, memoirists, biographers, non-fiction writers, poets, humorists and food writers.

In 2015 Korelitz and her sister, Nina Korelitz Matza, created Dot Dot Productions, LLC, in order to produce "The Dead, 1904", an immersive theater adaptation of James Joyce's short story, "The Dead", with The Irish Repertory Theatre. The adaptation of the story, "The Dead, 1904", was by Korelitz and Paul Muldoon. Dot Dot Productions plans a number of future productions, ranging from off-Broadway immersive theater to Broadway musicals.

Korelitz’s first novel, A Jury of Her Peers, was a legal thriller about a Legal Aid lawyer who uncovers a jury tampering plot, which Kirkus called “a monstrous-conspiracy wolf in legal-intrigue clothing.” Her second novel, The Sabbathday River, transplanted elements of the plot of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter to a small community near Hanover, New Hampshire, and described a case of infanticide and a resulting trial.