Jane St Clair’s Biography Page

Jane St. Clair has published fifteen children’s books, over fifty children’s short stories, and many short stories for adults in literary magazines such as Thema, QWF, and Red Rock Review. Her stories also appear in several literary anthologies, including Times of Grace, Times of Sorrow published by the University of Nebraska and Mourning Sickness from Omni Press. She 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. Walk Me to Midnight is her first novel.

Jane St. Clair grew up in Chicago and worked her way through Northwestern University as a factory welder, beauty shop attendant, commercial sign maker, cocktail waitress and more. After earning a degree in journalism, she worked in Chicago ghettos in the welfare system. Later she was on the staff of “Sesame Street” in New York City. Jane St. Clair also 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 St. Clair’s father, mother and sister all died of cancer in hospice settings.  Sitting with hospice nurses for weeks at a time as her family members declined, Jane St Clair saw for herself what she later depicts in her debut novel, Walk Me to Midnight. Walk Me to Midnight is dedicated to hospice nurses and takes up the challenge of the assisted suicide controversy.

Jane St Clair As A Non-Fiction Writer

Jane St Clair has been as free-lance writer for over five years, writing hundreds of web articles.. She has published two full-length non-fiction books on psychology and etiquette as a ghostwriter, and e-books on subjects like MySpace, How to Find A Lost Cat, Guides to Attention Deficit Disorder, Asperger Syndrome, Charm and Beauty Guide for Teens, and many more.   Jane St. Clair has written press releases, covered national conventions, and written speeches for several political campaigns. Her series on financial literacy, “The Money Express,” for children has won several national awards and received more than a million “hits” on the Internet. Jane St. Clair’s resume, professional profile and employer endorsements are available at Guru.com. Visit her blog at http://www.myspace.com/jane_st_clair.