![]() ![]() ![]() Right, tells the story of her experiences surviving breast cancer, becoming a stepmom, and attending her new husband's Pentecostal church. These experiences are recounted in her memoir Mennonite in a Little Black Dress. While on sabbatical from her teaching position, she went home to her Mennonite family in Fresno, California, to heal from these crises. In 2006, Janzen's husband of 15 years left her for a man and a few days later she suffered serious injuries in a car accident. She currently teaches at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. She went on to earn an MA and a PhD from UCLA where she wrote her dissertation on American-British author Henry James. Following this she earned a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. In 1984 she graduated from Fresno Pacific University with a bachelors in English literature. ![]() Janzen grew up in a Mennonite household in North Dakota as the daughter of a Mennonite pastor. Rhoda Marie Janzen Burton née Rhoda Marie Janzen is an American poet, academic and memoirist, best known for her memoir Mennonite in a Little Black Dress which was a finalist for a Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2010. University of California, Los Angeles (M.A.) (PhD)įair Deceivers: The Art of the Lie in Henry James (2002). ![]()
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