Biography

She was born in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, and raised in Highland Park, Illinois

Highland Park, Illinois

Highland Park is a suburban municipality in Lake County, Illinois, United States, about north of downtown Chicago. As of 2009, the population is 33,492. Highland Park is one of several municipalities located on the North Shore of the Chicago Metropolitan Area.-Overview:Highland Park was founded...

. She attended the University of Illinois and the University of Iowa

University of Iowa

The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...

, where she earned her master's degree from the Iowa Writer's Workshop. After 32 years in advertising, (for the last six years she was a Senior Vice President of Mccann-Erickson Usa, Inc, a New York advertising

Advertising

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 agency), she lives in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

. She is now writing fiction full-time.

She has published three novels: Lily Beach

Lily Beach

Lily Beach is a literary novel by Jennie Fields. Her first published work, this story is set in the 1960's and focuses on the character Lily Beach as she struggles with a past of abuse...

, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, and The Middle Ages. Her next novel, The Age of Desire, is based on the life of Edith Wharton.

Fields writes about women's lives, and their struggles to be happy in a changing world. Her books are also published in Germany, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.