Jane Rogers

Jane Rogers is a British author of literary fiction and television drama. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2012), a novel about a teenage girl caught up in a catastrophic plague affecting pregnant women, who decides to become a martyr in an experimental vaccine programme. Born in London in 1952, Rogers studied English at Cambridge University and has taught creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University. She has written numerous novels including Mr. Wroe's Virgins (adapted for television), Island, The Voyage Home, and Island. The Testament of Jessie Lamb won the Clarke Award and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her fiction often engages with feminist themes, moral philosophy, and the relationship between individuals and historical forces. She lives in Scotland.