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“Dazzling… an intimate and humanizing portrait of a woman who was far more than just a muse."" —Candace Bushnell, New York Times bestselling author of Sex and the City “An affectionate and appealing account of the young Englishwoman who became a French icon.” —Kirkus Reviews “In It Girl, Marisa Meltzer turns her incisive eye to the mystique of Jane Birkin, most remembered today for her namesake Hermes bag, revealing how an insecure British teen transformed into a darling of the French New Wave, and a nuanced portrait of a young mother navigating tumultuous and often imbalanced love affairs and artistic collaborations, and her refusal to let them define her.” —Julie Satow, New York Times bestselling author of When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

“In It Girl, Marisa Meltzer turns her incisive eye to the mystique of Jane Birkin, most remembered today for her namesake Hermes bag, revealing how an insecure British teen transformed into a darling of the French New Wave, and a nuanced portrait of a young mother navigating tumultuous and often imbalanced love affairs and artistic collaborations, and her refusal to let them define her.” —Julie Satow, New York Times bestselling author of When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

“There was a Birkin before the bag. In this compelling and charming new biography, Meltzer delves into the life of the British-born Birkin—an actress and musician born into English aristocracy who found her true calling among Paris’s louche 1970s scene."" —Town & Country (Best Books of Fall 2025) “Dazzling… an intimate and humanizing portrait of a woman who was far more than just a muse."" —Candace Bushnell, New York Times bestselling author of Sex and the City “An affectionate and appealing account of the young Englishwoman who became a French icon.” —Kirkus Reviews “In It Girl, Marisa Meltzer turns her incisive eye to the mystique of Jane Birkin, most remembered today for her namesake Hermes bag, revealing how an insecure British teen transformed into a darling of the French New Wave, and a nuanced portrait of a young mother navigating tumultuous and often imbalanced love affairs and artistic collaborations, and her refusal to let them define her.” —Julie Satow, New York Times bestselling author of When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

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Marisa Meltzer is a journalist based in New York who for over two decades has covered beauty, fashion, wellness, and celebrity for top national publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller It Girl, Glossy, This Is Big, How Sassy Changed My Life, and Girl Power, and lives in Manhattan. 

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