1. Jane Hamsher was born on Jane Murphy; July 25,1959 and 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.
Jane Hamsher's family moved to Seattle when she was eight years old.
Jane Hamsher went on to attend Mills College in Oakland, California, and studied abroad in London.
In college Jane Hamsher worked as a reporter covering punk rock and politics for the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Jane Hamsher lived in the Los Angeles area for most of her career as a producer.
Jane Hamsher sold her Nichols Canyon house in 2004 and moved to Otter Rock, Oregon.
Jane Hamsher has had breast cancer three times: 1993,2004, and 2006.
Jane Hamsher insisted on returning to Washington, DC, two weeks after her third surgery to blog the remainder of the Scooter Libby trial.
Jane Hamsher's treatment has been at St John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.
In 2009, Jane Hamsher told Politico that she dated then-SEIU President Andy Stern for two years.
At USC, Hamsher became friends with Don Murphy, forming a production company, Jane and Don Productions, Inc For $10,000, they secured an option on the original screenplay for the 1994 satirical crime film Natural Born Killers, written by a then-unknown Quentin Tarantino.
Jane Hamsher produced or co-produced the 1990 dramatic feature film An American Summer and the 1994 live-action film adaptation Double Dragon, based on Double Dragon, a video game franchise.
In September 1997, Jane Hamsher published the controversial memoir Killer Instinct recounting her experiences as a producer of Natural Born Killers.
Jane Hamsher charges that he betrayed her and Murphy by going behind their backs to keep them from making Natural Born Killers.
Jane Hamsher calls Tarantino a 'one-trick pony,' a wildly overrated director.
Jane Hamsher is listed as leading the CommonSense Media Advertising Network, which includes Eschaton, FireDogLake, FiveThirtyEight, and Think Progress.
Jane Hamsher filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy in the District of Columbia Bankruptcy Court on March 3,2013.
Jane Hamsher has been involved with the political action groups Public Option Please, Blue America, Accountability Now and FDL Action.
Jane Hamsher has been a guest on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, the BBC, and Al Jazeera.