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Jane Hamsher (born Jane Murphy; July 25, 1959) is a US film producer, author, and blogger best known as the author of ''Killer Instinct'', a memoir about co-producing the 1994 movie ''Natural Born Killers'' with Don Murphy and others, and as the founder and publisher of the politically progressive blog ''FireDogLake'' (2004 – 2015). With Murphy, she also co-produced the subsequent films ''Apt Pupil'' (1998), ''Permanent Midnight'' (1998), and ''From Hell'' (2001).〔 A contributor to ''The Huffington Post'', she posts also in liberal Websites and political magazines, such as ''AlterNet'' and ''The American Prospect''.〔 ==Personal history and education== Hamsher is a Massachusetts native who lived in Fitchburg and then Attleboro. Her family moved to Seattle when she was eight years old. She attended Roosevelt High School. She went on to attend Mills College in Oakland, California, and studied abroad in London. In college Hamsher worked as a reporter covering punk rock and politics for the ''San Francisco Bay Guardian''. She also edited ''Damage'', a punk rock fanzine. After college she moved to Los Angeles, where she was accepted into the Peter Stark Producing Program at the USC School of Cinema-Television. She received her M.F.A. in 1988. Hamsher lived in the Los Angeles area for most of her career as a producer. She sold her Nichols Canyon house in 2004 and moved to Otter Rock, Oregon. When she became interested in the 2006 Connecticut Senate race, she rented a small farmhouse in Guilford, Connecticut, where she and other bloggers and reporters could live while covering the campaign.〔 A few months later she raised money for a similar rental in Washington, D.C., called "Plame House", which served as a base for covering the Scooter Libby trial. She now has a residence in Washington, D.C. Hamsher has had breast cancer three times: 1993, 2004,〔 and 2006. She insisted on returning to Washington, D.C., two weeks after her third surgery to blog the remainder of the Scooter Libby trial. Her treatment has been at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. Hamsher took her mother's maiden name. Her family name is Murphy. In 2009, Hamsher told ''Politico'' that she dated then-SEIU President Andy Stern for two years. She lives with her poodles Katie and Lucy. When Kobe, her third, died in 2009 she wrote a 5,000-word tribute.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jane Hamsher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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