Jane geniesse biography

  • JANE FLETCHER GENIESSE, a former reporter for the New York Times, researched American Priestess for seven years.
  • Jane Fletcher Geniesse, a former reporter with the New York Times, is the author of two biographies and a novel.
  • Jane Fletcher Geniesse, a former reporter for the New York Times, researched American Priestess for seven years.

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    Boca Grande Health Clinic is pleased to present the next episode in its “Secrets to Longevity” web video series, where we pay tribute to Boca Grande’s seniors. “We had such a great response to these videos when we launched the longevity series last year that we are continuing the series throughout 2023,” said Mark Driscoll, Boca Grande Health Clinic CEO.

    In the fourth episode of the series, we hear from Jane Fletcher Geniesse, one of the Island’s octogenarians (those in their 80s). Watch Jane’s secrets to longevity, Episode 4.

    Staying active – body and mind – may not be the “best kept secret” to longevity, but it certainly works for Jane Fletcher Geniesse, 87, former reporter with the New York Times and author of two biographies and a novel.

    A friend of Jane’s once told her that life can be like walking through a minefield, but Jane disagrees and instead intends to keep living life to its fullest. “A sedentary life is not a healthy life” is a mantra she takes seriously.

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    Jane Fletcher Geniesse

    Jane Fletcher Geniesse, a former reporter with the New York Times, is the author of two biographies and a novel. A graduate of Radcliffe College and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Mrs. Geniesse has contributed articles to many publications and is frequently invited to speak on her books and on the mittpunkt East.

    In 1982, her husband Robert J. Geniesse, previously the ledare Appellate Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was asked bygd his lag firm, Debevoise & Plimpton, to open an office in Washington, DC. bygd this time Mrs. Geniesse, who had written The Riches of life, a novel, had left the New York Times where she was reporter for the Home Section, in order to work on another novel. When the couple moved to the nation's capitol, her editor at Random House suggested she try her grabb at biography.

    Mrs. Geniesse's brother, Harvard Professor Joseph F. Fletcher, Jr., was a very influential figure in her life and had stimulated

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    My reading group came to read Jane Fletcher Geniesse’s biography, Passionate nomad: The life of Freya Stark, by a somewhat circuitous route – and it started with my blog. One of our members had read my Monday Musings post on 19th century travellers, and suggested that we read a 19th century travel writer. Somehow, as the discussion developed, this morphed into reading a biography of a twentieth century travel writer. As young people say today, whatever!

    Some of you probably know of Stark, but to clarify, she was a British-Italian travel writer, explorer/adventurer and historian, who was one of her time’s “most respected experts on the Arab world”. She lived and travelled in the Arabic states from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s, in particular, and was one of the first non-Arabians to travel through the southern Arabian deserts. Amazingly – well, it seems amazing when you’ve read the book and see what she expe