Jennifer Eaton Gokmen

Novelist

Birthday January 31, 1971

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace Michigan

Age 53 years old

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About

Known for her 2006 bestselling anthology, Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey, she also worked as a travel writer and presenter for several Turkish television programs.

Before Fame

After graduating from Western Michigan University, she published travel pieces in National Geographic Traveler and TimeOut Istanbul.

Trivia

She attended high school in Brentwood, Tennesee.

Family Life

A native of Wayne, Michigan, she eventually settled in Istanbul, Turkey, with her husband (the son of Turkish Republican People's Party politician Sami Gökmen).

Associated With

She and her Tales from the Expat Harem co-editor, Anastasia Ashman, appeared in 2008 on NBC's Where in the World is Matt Lauer? travel special.