TWILIFE

About the Book

From futures studies to poetry, journalism, and global insight—Lane Jennings reflects a lifetime shaping tomorrow’s world through words and vision.

About the Author

Lane Jennings grew up in Chicago, attended Williams College and Harvard, spent a year as a Fulbright student in Munich, Germany; and was a Harvard Traveling Fellow in East Berlin.

After leaving school, Lane worked for over 40 years as an editor and journalist with the World Future Society, who magazine THE FUTURIST explored how social trends and innovations were working to reshape tomorrow’s world.

In addition to his interest in future studies, Lane has worked as a translator and interpreter with the U.S. State Department and Germany’s Goethe Institut. He has also written scripts for TV documentaries shown on PBS and Europe. His poems and other writings have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies.

In 1996 Lane produced an experimental book of future-focused poems entitled Virtual Futures, followed two years later by Fabrications, a gathering of his new and selected poems. In 2012 he assembled Lineage, featuring poems and stories written by three generations of his family (grandfather, father and himself), and in 2016 his novel Satisfaction was published.