Jennie Fields received an MFA from the Iowa Writers\' Workshop and is the author of the novels Lily Beach , Crossing Brooklyn Ferry , The Middle Ages , and The Age of Desire.
Fields now lives with her husband in Nashville, Tennessee..
A Chicago native, Fields was inspired by her own mother\'s work as a University of Chicago-trained biochemist in the 1950s.
Jennie Fields received an MFA from the Iowa Writers\' Workshop and is the author of the novels Lily Beach , Crossing Brooklyn Ferry , The Middle Ages , and The Age of Desire