Jean Henry Mead

Henry Mead, Jean

Natrona County, Wyoming

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 a California daily 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 winning 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 twelve books was published. She edited and ghostwrote a number of others, served as In Wyoming Magazine editor, editor 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, A. B. Guthrie, Jr. and a host of other writers may be found on numerous online websites, including Zino's "Best Writing on the Web" and her book, Maverick Writers. In 1981 she established the Western Writers Hall of Fame. In her spare time she has taught fledgling writers online and worked with youth groups. She also owns/moderates the Senior Sleuth Forum on Yahoo.com and takes part in a number of blog sites, including: <http://murderousmusings.blogspot.com/>, <http://jeanhenrymead.com/blogadvicetofledglingwriters.htm>, <http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/2008/12/village-shattereds-logan-cafferty_29.html>, <http://awhh.blogspot.com/>, <http://advicefromeditors.blogspot.com/> and http://mysteriouspeople.blogspot.com/

Genres

Autobiography or Biography

Mystery/suspense

Titles

Diary of Murder, ePress-Online, Elwood, UT: 978-1934258330

A Village Shattered (mystery novel), ePress-Online, Elwood, UT. ISBN: 978-1-934258-20-3

Escape (A Wyoming Historical Novel), ePress-Online, Elwood, UT. ISBN: 978-1-934258-21-7

Shirl Lock and Holmes, Medallion Books, Evansville, WY. ISBN: 1-931415-13-7, 1-931415-14-5.

Wyoming's Cowboy Poets and Their Poetry (2004), Medallion Books, Evansville, WY. ISBN: 1-931415-01-3, 1-931415-005.

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 Medallion Books, Evansville, WY. ISBN: 1-931415-12-9.

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), Caxton Press, Caldwell, ID. 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

Living Authors Wyoming Subjects Natrona County New Books