JANE PEJSA
Prizewinning Author
Jane Pejsa
1314 Marquette Avenue #1206 Minneapolis MN 55403
Phone: 612-354-3411 email: pejsa@sprintmail.com
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Jane Pejsa has written a number of impressive books in
the course of her career. A substantial Bush Foundation Award enabled her
to research and write Matriarch of Conspiracy, Ruth von Kleist 1867-1945,
which won both the Minnesota Book Award for Best Biography and the Midwest
Independent Publishers' Award for Best Book Overall. The book has since
appeared in Japanese, German, and most recently in a Polish edition, for
which she has received the coveted Zloty Ekslibris award in Poland. 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. After a lifetime in Minneapolis, Ms. Pejsa spent a number of years in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, recently returning full time to Minneapolis.
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 |