As part of NPR's series "One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs," NPR Music's Ann Powers nominates "Jesse" by Janis Ian. She's known mostly for her... Janis Ian Was More Than Just A Teenager Morning ...

A storyteller before she was even a teenager, Janis Ian was writing poetry by the age of 12, then wrote one of her most iconic songs “Society’s Child (Baby I’ve Been Thinking)” at 13, documenting the ...

It hasn't been easy for Janis Ian (born: Janis Eddy Fink). As the recently-published book "Society's Child: My Autobiography" (Tarcher Publications) tells it, the New York-born and New Jersey-raised ...

Janis Ian, the short, Jewish folk singer and lesbian, will never fit the profile of a Southern belle. Still, the transplanted Jersey girl sometimes feels like the belle of the ball in her adopted home ...

Folk music icon Janis Ian, performing on Mountain Stage as part of her final tour in April 2021. This week’s encore episode of Mountain Stage was recorded in Morgantown, WV last April on the campus of ...

Morning Edition's series called One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs focuses on musicians or bands whose careers in the United States are defined by a single monster hit, and explains why their ...