Jane Green (born in 1968)^[2] also known by her married name, Jane Green Warburg,^[1] is an English-born American author whose works of fiction are American and international best-sellers.^[2] As of 2014, Green's books had sold in excess of 10 million copies globally, with translations of them appearing in thirty-one languages,^[2] making her a leading author, globally, of commercial women's fiction.^{[not verified in body]} With regard to genres, she has been described as "[o]ne of the first of the chick lit" authors,^[2][3][4] and as a founding author of the form of fiction sometimes referred to as "mum lit."^[3]

Jane Green was born in London, England, on 31 May 1968.^[1] She attended South Hampstead High School, and went on to study fine art at Aberystwyth University.^[2][1] and Ravensbourne School of Art.

Green was employed by Granada TV as a publicist in her early 20s.^[2] She continued working as a journalist throughout her twenties,^[when?] writing women's features for publications including The Daily Express,^{[2][5][better source needed]} The Daily Mail, and ^{[citation needed]} Cosmopolitan magazine.^{[citation needed]}

Green left The Daily Express in 1996, to begin work which in the publication of her first book, Straight Talking seven months later,^[2][5] for which there was a bidding war,^[2] and which became a best-seller.^{[citation needed]} The book launched her career as "the queen of chick lit".^[6] Her novels include Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans (1998),^[2] Life Swap (UK; Swapping Lives in the US, 2006),^[2] Second Chance (2007),^[2] The Beach House (2008),^[2] and Saving Grace (2015),^[2] five of seventeen novels through 2016 that became New York Times best-sellers.^{[verification needed][citation needed]} As of 2014, Green had over 10 million books in print,^[2] and many global best-sellers.^{[citation needed]} "Jane Green" is the name she continued to use in her writing career, including after she married Ian Warburg of the Warburg banking family, her second spouse,^[2] and legally took his name.^{[citation needed]}

Green has taught at writers' conferences,^[2] and writes for various publications including Cosmopolitan magazine,^[2] The Sunday Times,^{[citation needed]} The Daily Telegraph,^{[citation needed]} Parade magazine,^{[citation needed]} and The Huffington Post.^[2] A graduate of the French Culinary Institute, she is publishing a cookbook, Good Taste.^{[full citation needed]} As of this date,^[when?] Green is also writing as a weekly column for The Lady magazine in the United Kingdom.^{[citation needed]} Her contribution of an e-book on the marriages of English royals for ABC News, Green became an ABC News Radio correspondent, and covered the 2011 wedding of "Kate" Middleton to England's Prince William.^[2]

Green contributed a story on the virtue of marital fidelity for The Moth Radio Hour, which was recorded in November 2015, and aired in September 2016.^[7]

As of 2014, Green lived in Westport, Connecticut,^[2] with her second husband, investment adviser Ian Warburg (grandson of Mary and Edward Warburg), whom she married 6 March 2009. Green has four children from her first marriage^[2] to American investment banker Davide Burke ^[8] and two stepchildren.^[2]