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Jane St. Clair grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and worked her way through Northwestern University with a variety of odd jobs such as factory welder, beauty shop attendant, commercial sign maker, cocktail waitress and more. After earning a degree in journalism, she spent a year in the Chicago ghettos as a welfare worker. She went to New York City as a production staff member of the television program, “Sesame Street.” Later she worked at Channel 11/PBS-TV in Chicago, and as a newspaper reporter/photographer for the Louisville-Courier Journal and weekly papers in rural Indiana and Appalachian Kentucky.
Jane has published over fifty children’s short stories, and adult fiction in literary magazines such as Thema, QWF, and Red Rock Review. Her stories also appear in literary anthologies, including Times of Grace, Times of Sorrow published by the University of Nebraska.
Jane is the 2007 winner of the True Life Story contest, 2006 first place winner of The Writers Network contest, American Accolades (first place), Hollywood’s Next Success, and 2005 winner in television writing for Scriptapalooza. As a free-lance writer, Jane authored two non-fiction books and hundreds of web articles. Walk Me to Midnight is her first novel.
Birth Place: Chicago, IL
Accomplishments: 2007 True Life Story first place
2006 American Accolades first place writing
Writers Network 2006 first place, Law and Order script
National award for teaching financial literacy
to children through a website, The Money Express.
The Money Express, has had over a million and a half "hits"
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