Her first book, The Molineux Affair, was finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, as Best True Crime, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. Both Gratia Countryman, Her Life, Her Loves, and Her Library and Romanoff, Prince of Rogues were finalists for the Minnesota Book Award, Best Biography. Romanoff—Prince of Rogues has recently been under a film option. The Life of Emily Peake, Voice of the Ojibwe, was written under a grant from the Minnesota Historical Society. This tender biography chronicles the trials and triumphs of the Ojibwe in Midwest America.

In her recent book The Final Encounter—Rommel, Patton, and Zhukov—Jane Pejsa broke ranks with her earlier books by creating a fictional encounter among three Word War II giants. Historical fiction may be its genre, but through this device the lives, the loves, and the tragedies of these three star-crossed men come through as if in Technicolor.

Jane Pejsa’s newly published book—A Remarkable Journey into the Heart of Europe—weaves travelogue, memoir, and European history into a seamless robe stretching across Poland and Germany, including events known intimately by the author through her extensive travels and associations.

Ms. Pejsa is a graduate of Carleton College, magna cum laude, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She is recipient of Carleton’s Outstanding Alumni Award. Having recently moved to Wisconsin, she now resides in Stevens Point.

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