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

Works

;Books

  • 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

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