JANE PEJSA
Prizewinning Author

 

Jane Pejsa, 1314 Marquette Ave, # 906, Minneapolis, MN 55403

Phone/Fax:  612.332.5073/5204        email: pejsa@sprintmail.com

 

Education: Carleton College BA magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa,

      Recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award

 

Partial List of Books & Awards

November, 2006

Pejsa, Jane, The Molineux Affair

·        Kenwood Publishing, Minneapolis, 1984

Finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe Award—Best True Crime, Mystery Writers      of America

·        St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1987

·        Piatkus Books, hard cover, London England, 1988

 

Pejsa, Jane, Matriarch of Conspiracy, Ruth von Kleist 1867-1945

·        Kenwood Publishing, Minneapolis, 1992

Original hard cover edition

Researched & written under a 1986 Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship

Winner of the Minnesota Book Award—Best Biography

Winner of the Midwest Independent Publishers Award—Best Book Overall

·        Pilgrim Press, Cleveland OH, 1992, soft cover

·        Shinko Shuppan Sha Publishers Tokyo Japan, 1993

Japanese-language, hard cover

·        Brendow Verlag, Moers Germany, 1995

German-language, hard cover & soft cover

·        Kenwood Publishing, Minneapolis, 1998

2nd edition, soft cover

·        Oskar Publishers, Gdansk Poland, 2003

Polish-language, soft cover

Winner of the Zloty Ekslibris (Gold Ex libris) Award

·        Derivative articles in several International Bonhoeffer Society

Quarterlies, both English-language Section and German-language Section

 

Pejsa, Jane, Gratia Countryman, her Life, her Loves and her Library

·        Nodin Press, Minneapolis, 1995

Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award—Best Biography

 

Pejsa, Jane, Romanoff  Prince of Rogues, The Life & Times of a Hollywood Icon

·        Kenwood Publishing, Minneapolis, 1997

Finalist, Minnesota Book Award—Best Biography

 

Pejsa, Jane, The Life of Emily Peake, One Dedicated Ojibwe

·        Nodin Press, Minneapolis, 2003

Researched & written under a Grant from the Minnesota Historical Society