Editing Elizabeth Janeway (section)

==Biography==
Born Elizabeth Ames Hall in [[Brooklyn]], New York, her naval architect father and homemaker mother fell on hard times during the [[Great Depression|Depression]], leading her to end her [[Swarthmore College]] education and help support the family by creating bargain-basement sale slogans (she graduated from [[Barnard College]] just a few years later, in 1935).<ref>Janeway, Elizabeth. [[iarchive:barnardalumnaema482barn/page/4/mode/1up|"Snoop, Ask, and Be Devious"]] ''Barnard Alumnae Magazine'' (February 1959): 4-5. via Internet Archive.</ref>

Intent on becoming an author, Janeway took the same [[creative writing]] class again and again to help hone her craft. While working on her first novel, ''The Walsh Girls'', she met and married [[Eliot Janeway]], a much-quoted economist, who was to enjoy some influence with Presidents [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (he was known as "Calamity Janeway" for his pessimistic economic forecasts). Elizabeth described Eliot as "the most intelligent man I had ever met."

The Janeways mingled with [[United States Supreme Court]] justices and many other public figures of the day (she recommended [[Erica Jong]]'s ''[[Fear of Flying (novel)|Fear of Flying]]'' to Justice [[William O. Douglas]]).

At the behest of [[Labor union|labor]] organizer [[Walter Reuther]], she aided [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] workers with their mid-1940s strike against the company.

Janeway finally finished ''Girls'' in 1943 while awaiting the birth of her second child; she signed the contract with the publishers while en route to the hospital. A later novel, 1949's ''The Question of Gregory,'' attracted attention due to the eerie similarities between Gregory and [[James Forrestal]], a [[United States Secretary of Defense|defense secretary]] and acquaintance of the Janeways who committed suicide. Janeway denied any connection between fact and fiction; she said the real theme of the book was "liberals in trouble".

All in all, Janeway wrote seven novels; one, 1945's ''Daisy Kenyon'', was made into a [[Daisy Kenyon|film]] starring [[Joan Crawford]]. For a time, Janeway was a reviewer for ''[[The New York Times]].'' In that capacity, she introduced writer [[Anthony Powell]] and served as a champion of controversial works such as ''[[Lolita]]''. She was also a reviewer for ''[[Ms. magazine|Ms.]]''.

From 1965–1969, she served as president of the [[Authors Guild]], addressing lawmakers about [[copyright]] protection and other matters.

Many of Janeway's early works focused on the family situation, with occasional glimpses at the struggles of women in modern society. In the early 1970s, she began a more explicitly feminist path with works such as ''Man's World, Woman's Place: A Study of Social Mythology.'' She befriended [[Betty Friedan]], [[Gloria Steinem]], and [[Kate Millett]], and was strongly in favor of abortion rights. Janeway continued to write and go on lecture tours. She learned to read Russian so she could read Turgenev and Chekhov in the original. 

Janeway was a judge for the [[National Book Awards]] in 1955 and for the [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1971. She was an executive of [[International PEN]]. At its 1981 commencement ceremonies, her ''alma mater'' Barnard College awarded Janeway its highest honor, the [[List of Barnard College people#Recipients of the Medal of Distinction|Barnard Medal of Distinction]].

Elizabeth Hall Janeway died in 2005 at her [[Rye (city), New York|Rye, New York]] home. She was survived by two sons: [[Columbia Graduate School of Journalism]] professor, ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' editor, and former ''[[Atlantic Monthly]]'' executive [[Michael Janeway]] and [[William H. Janeway]], until 2006 a vice chairman at [[Warburg Pincus]], as well as by three grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.

The ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' character [[Kathryn Janeway]]  originally shared her name, but writers changed the name after learning of her.<ref>''The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide to the Future'' Updated and Expanded Edition by [[Michael Okuda]] and [[Denise Okuda]], page 219.</ref>