Jane Brox
{{Short description|American author}}
Jane (Martha) Brox (born Sept. 4, 1956{{Cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Biography-Martha-1956-Contemporary-Authors/|title=Amazon.com, "Biography - Jane (Martha) Brox" from Contemporary Authors|website=Amazon }}) is an American author, who specializes in non-fiction works. Her father was John Brox (1910–1995).from the frontispiece of "Five Thousand Days . ." She graduated from Colby College in 1978
{{cite web |website=colby.edu |url=http://www.colby.edu/colby.mag/issues/88n2/books/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010116103700/http://www.colby.edu/colby.mag/issues/88n2/books/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=Jan 16, 2001 |title=Grace, and a Life Well Lived}} and currently lives in Maine.from the cover of "Brilliant" (2010)[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70E10FF355A0C718CDDAB0994DC404482 NATURE; Loving and Leaving the Family Farm] New York Times
Awards and honors
- 1996 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family
Works
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- Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family (1995, {{ISBN|0-8070-6200-6}}; {{ISBN|0-8070-6201-4}})
- Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History (1999, Beacon Press, Boston MA)
- Clearing Land, Legacies of the American Farm (2004, {{ISBN|978-0-86547-649-3}})AMAZON.COM
- Brilliant, the Evolution of Artificial Light (2010; {{ISBN|978-0-547-05527-5}})
- Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives (2019, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt {{ISBN|978-0544702486}}
- In the Merrimack Valley: A Farm Trilogy (2024, {{ISBN|978-1567928181}})
Other works
- Brox's website lists 30 magazine articles that she has written
- The website lists 9 publications which have carried her poetry
- The website lists 7 published book reviews written by Brox
- The website lists 11 radio essays produced by Brox, carried primarily by NPR
References
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External links
- [http://www.janebrox.com Official website]
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