Janet White
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Janet White

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Janet White was born in the UK and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University with a degree in Natural Sciences. She began her career as a laboratory scientist but soon moved into more strategic roles and has traveled widely as a consultant and businesswoman, and now resides in the USA. Janet White draws on her many interests in her writing; her first novel 'Daughters' Dilemma' brings together her passion for achieving equity for women in science, her other creative pursuits of cooking and playing classical music, as well as her favorite book genres which are mysteries and biographies. In the sequel to 'Daughters' Dilemma', 'Seeking Aphrodite' archeologist Sangita Choudhury embarks on a new adventure in Cyprus. White's second book, 'An African ABC' was inspired by the plight of street children whom she met while on a short term work assignment in Uganda. Royalties from sales of the book go directly to support education of street children through the charity Kitenge Africa. White's second novel and third published book. 'From Saigon to San Diego' is a pen portrait of her adopted home city of San Diego, California, where she now lives with her husband Jonathan and their two dogs. This tale of redemption weaves together the stories of a Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD and a first generation Vietnamese-American immigrant family whose paths first in Saigon in 1975,and again in San Diego thirty years later. Her fourth book, 'Crows Feat', was published in 2016, a novel in which the crows take on their own Mission Impossible to steal a vaccine to protect themselves from extermination by an outbreak of West Nile Virus. White's fifth novel 'Beethoven's String Quartet Opus 74 "The Harp" is about chamber music and was inspired by a visit to see an original Beethoven autograph score in Krakow, Poland and the history behind it. Her most recent novel 'A Rip in the Quilt' is set on a fictional island in the Pacific Northwest, inspired by visits to the San Juan Islands and islands of British Columbia, and the colorful characters that have chosen to make their homes there.
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