Henry-Mead, Jean

Natrona County, Wyoming
JeanHenryMead@aol.com
JeanHenryMead.com

Natrona County

Biographical and Professional Information

Jean Henry-Mead (aka Jean Henry and S. Jean Mead) served as editor-in-chief of her college newspaper in 1970 while a cub reporter for the Hanford Sentinel, a daily California newspaper. She also served as staff writer/photographer/editor in San Diego, and staff writer for the Casper Star-Tribune. She freelanced for the Denver Post's Empire Magazine as well as other publications, both domestic and abroad. Her work won more than 20 state, regional, and national awards. She also worked with Peggy Simson Curry in Wyoming's "Poetry in the Schools" program and in 1982 the first of her nine books was published. She edited and ghostwrote a number of others, served as In Wyoming Magazine editor, publisher of two small publishing companies as well as Wyoming Writers' president, Western Writers of America's national publicity director and secretary-treasurer, and Wyoming Press Women's historian. Her interviews with Louis L'Amour, Will Henry and a host of other writers may be found on numerous online websites, including Zino's "Best Writing on the Web" and American Western Magazine. In 1981 she founded the Western Writers Hall of Fame. In her spare time she has taught fledgling writers online and worked with youth groups.

Her website: JeanHenryMead.com

Genres

Autobiography or Biography
Fiction
History
Humor
Mystery
Nonfiction
Western
Wyoming Subjects

Titles

Shirl Lock and Holmes, (2007) Medallion Books, Evansville, WY. ISBN: 1-931415-13-7, 1-931415-14-5. (1999) Pagefree Publishing, MI (ebook) ISBN: 1-929077-78-51.

Wyoming's Cowboy Poets and Their Poetry (2004), Medallion Books, Evansville, WY. ISBN: 1-931415-01-3, 1-931415-00-5.

Casper Country: Wyoming's Heartland (2004) Medallion Books, Evansville, WY. ISBN: 1-931415-07-2. (1987), Pruett Publishing, Boulder, CO. ISBN: 0-87108-738-3.

Wyoming Historical Trivia (2004), edited, Medallion Books, Evansville, WY. ISBN: 1-931415-02-1, 1-931415-03-X.

Escape on the Wind: A Wyoming Historical Novel (2004) Medallion Books, Evansville, WY. ISBN: 1-931415-12-9. ISBN: 1-931415-10-2 (1999) Pagefree Publishing, MI (book). ISBN: 1-929077-79-3.

Westerners; Candid and Historic Interviews (2003), Medallion Books, Evansville, WY. ISBN: 1-931415-05-6, 1-931415-06-4.

What Our Parents Should Know: Advice From Teens (2003), edited, Medallion Books, Evansville, WY. ISBN: 1-931415-11-0, 1-931415-01-3.

Maverick Writers: Comments by 52 of the Best (2004), Medallion Books, Evansville, WY. ISBN: 1-931415-07-2, 1-931415-08-0. (1989) Caxton Press, Caldwell, ID. ISBN: 0-870043-31-5

Wyoming in Profile, (1982), Pruett Publishing, Boulder, CO. ISBN: 0-87108-600-X

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