Readers have long cherished the brilliant, ironic novels of Jane Austen and critics have ranked them with the masterpieces of world literature, but surprisingly, there has been no major biography of the novelist in over seventy years. Park Honan's highly accliamed Jane Austen: Her Life is the biography that Austen-and her readers-have long deserved | Jane Austen: Her Life by Park Honan, Paperback | Indigo Chapters