14 Facts About Jane Pratt

Jane Pratt was born on November 11,1962 and is the founding editor of Sassy, Jane and xoJane.

Jane Pratt is the host of the talk show Jane Radio on Sirius XM Radio.

Jane Pratt was born in San Francisco, California, to Sheila Marks Blake, an artist, and Vernon Pratt, a minimalist painter and professor of art at Duke University.

Jane Pratt's mother grew up in Queens, New York, and her maternal grandfather, Joseph Marks, was a vice-president of the Doubleday publishing company.

Jane Pratt was raised in Durham, North Carolina, and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, at the age of 15.

Jane Pratt's publishing career began with internships at Rolling Stone magazine and Sportstyle, a Fairchild Publication.

At the age of 24, Jane Pratt became the founding editor of Sassy, a magazine for teenage girls.

Jane Pratt is the author of two books, For Real: The Uncensored Truth About America's Teenagers and Beyond Beauty: Girls Speak Out on Looks, Style and Stereotypes, which is published by Callaway Editions in association with Clarkson Potter.

Jane was nominated for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence by the American Society of Magazine Editors, and Pratt was named "Editor of the Year" in 2002 by Adweek.

Circulation had steadily increased since the magazine's debut, with 700,000 readers as of the day Jane Pratt announced she would be stepping down.

In May 2011, Pratt launched women's lifestyle site called xoJane.

In December 2016, Time indicated that it would be folding xoJane into InStyle, following reports that Pratt was leaving Time and looking for a new owner for her web properties.

Jane Pratt was pregnant with twins, due in the summer of 2005, but she miscarried both that April.

An episode of Girls featured a character with a similar appearance as Pratt named Jame, an editor of a confessional blog similar to a regular column on xoJane.