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Author and educator Janet Lewis earned an AA from the Lewis Institute in Chicago and a Ph.B from the University of Chicago. She was a Guggenheim fellow and lectured at Stanford University, as well as teaching short-story writing at the University of Missouri and the University of Denver. Joining ASCAP in 1956, she wrote the novels The Invasion, The Wife of Martin Guerre, Against a Darkening Sky, The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron, Goodbye, Son and Other Stories, and The Trial of Soren Qvist, which received a Gold Medal from the San Francisco Commonwealth Club. Her collection Poems, 1924-44 won a Shelley Memorial Award. She also authored the opera The Wife of Martin Guerre.