- Jean Henry-Mead
Jean Henry-Mead is an American novelist, award-winning
photojournalist , historian and editor/publisher. She has also written under the names: Jean Henry, Jean Mead, and S. Jean Mead."'
Biography
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Born in the
Hollywood district ofLos Angeles, California , Mead wrote a number of books of interviews with well-known people, including politicians, writers, actors, artists and screenwriters. She has also written western history, a mystery novel and a Wyoming historical novel aboutButch Cassidy 'sWild Bunch . She established theWestern Writers Hall of Fame in 1981 at theUniversity of Wyoming , atLaramie , while serving as national publicity director forWestern Writers of America . Her magazine articles have appeared domestically as well as abroad.Mead began her writing career as a news reporter/photographer in California and transferred to Wyoming, where she worked as a staff writer for the
Casper Star-Tribune . She later served as editor of In Wyoming Magazine and freelanced for theDenver Post 's Empire Magazine. Her freelance magazine articles have won a number of regional and national writing awards.Among the hundreds of interviews contained in her books are: Vice President
Dick Cheney , authors:Louis L'Amour ,Will Henry ,Lucia St. Clair Robson andA.B. Guthrie, Jr. ; as well asElmore Leonard andLoren Estleman ;Buffalo Bill 's grandson,Bill Cody , who surrendered more troops duringWorld War II sBattle of the Bulge than any other officer; and presidential grandson,William Henry Harrison .Her ten books consist of seven nonfiction and three novels:
Books
* Wyoming in Profile
* Casper Country: Wyoming's Heartland
* Maverick Writers
* Escape on the Wind
* What Our Parents Should Know: Advice from Teens (edited)
* Westerners: Candid and Historic Interviews
* Wyoming's Cowboy Poets and Their Poetry
* Wyoming Historical Trivia (edited)
* Escape - A Wyoming Historical Novel
* The ABCs of Murder
External links
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* [http://wiki.wyomingauthors.org/Jean+Henry-Mead bio at Wyoming Authors Wiki]
* [http://jeanhenrymead.com/ Jean Henry-Mead's website]
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