All of the author bios were written by Michele Jahncke.
Michele Jahncke is in awe of people, their intricacies and their simplicity. A woman who surveys what the person in front of her at the grocery is buying and, in a nonjudgmental way, tries to deduce something about them
To take a wonderful author and distill their essence in 200 words or less is no easy task. She challenges each of you to try to do the same of yourself, someone you know, or from a biography you have read. Not as an exercise in difficulty but as a process to enjoy.
Here are a few things on her conveyer belt: a degree in photography with an emphasis in photojournalism, mother and home educator, hails from Iowa but has lived in Germany and Italy, now calls the foothills of the Appalachians home, Jesus is her #1, and adores the smell of sunshine.
George F. Atkinson
Thom, Charles. A Biographical Memoir, National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C. 1956 http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/atkinson-george-f.pdf
Cornell University Department of Plant Pathology, Biography of George F. Atkinson, 2013 http://www.plantpath.cornell.edu/CUPpages/Atkinson/Atk-biography.html
Walter Buehr
Commire, Anne. Something About the Author, Vol. 3, electronic resource, Gale Research, 1971.
https://archive.org/details/somethingaboutau03anne/page/32/mode/2up
Kirkus Review Article Dec. 15,1963
https://www.kirkus reviews.com/book-reviews/a/walter-buehr-4/heraldry-the-story-of-armorial-bearings/
Hendricks, Charles. Combat and Construction: US Army Engineers in World War 1, Nov. 1993
Click to access ep_870-1-47.pdf
Bill Bryson
Sherman, Jen, Reading Pathways: Bill Bryson, Oct. 15, 2019. https://bookriot.com/bill-bryson-books/
The Royal Society, Feb. 16, 2021. https://royalsociety.org/people/bill-bryson-11156/
Frederick Collins
Spark Museum, Early Radio and Scientific Apparatus, March 6, 2021
http://www.sparkmuseum.com/COLLINS.HTM
The Book of Stars, 1920, D. Appleton, New York
https://archive.org/details/bookofstarsbeing00coll
The Book of Wireless, 1915, D. Appleton, New York
https://archive.org/details/BookOfWireless/pag
Øyvind Nydal Dahl
Dahl, Øyvind N., Ohmify, Feb. 9, 2021. https://ohmify.com/about/
Dahl, Øyvind N., Build Electronic Circuits, Feb. 9, 2021. https://www.build-electronic-circuits.com/about/
Alice Dickinson
Rich, Louise Dickinson. “Innocence Under the Elms”, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1955,
Internet Archive
Dickinson, Alice. “Taken by the Indians: True Tales of Captivity” dust jacket, Franklin Watts, New York, 1976. Internet Archive
Sam and Beryl Epstein
Children’s Literature Review, Vol. 26. Gale Research, Detroit Mich. 1992
https://archive.org/details/childrensliterat0026unse_v8z9/page/52/mode/2up
Rocco V. Feravolo
Commire, Anne. “Something About the Author, Vol. 10”, Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1976
Paul Fleisher
https://paulfleisher.com/?page_id=41, March 13, 2021
http://ragakusuma.org/home/music, March 13, 2021
Tristan Gooley
https://intothesticks.life/2021/06/17/tristan-gooley/https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2021/05/natural-navigator-tristan-gooleyhttps://www.naturalnavigator.com/tristan-gooley/
David C. Knight
Knight, David C. Isaac Newton Mastermind of Modern Science, Franklin Watts,
New York.1961. Feb. 11, 2021, ebay.com
Books by David C. Knight, Feb. 11, 2021, Goodreads.com
Nancy Larrick
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, More Books by More People: Interviews with Sixty-five Authors of Books for Children, New York: Citation Press, 1974
Lewis and Wilson, Children’s Literature, from the Special Collections of the Julia Rogers Library, <https://www.goucher.edu/library/documents/Childrens_Lit.pdf>
Walter Lewin
Griest, Stephani Elizondo, Around the Blog, Jan. 20, 2010
Douglas Moo and Jonathan Moo
https://www.faithandinvesting.com/journal/creation-care-douglas-moo-jonathan-moo/https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/faculty/douglas-moo/https://biologos.org/people/jonathan-a-moohttps://www.whitworth.edu/cms/academics/theology/newsletter/profiles/jonathan-moo/https://www.thefigtree.org/feb22/020122moowhitworth.htmlhttp://www.djmoo.com/about
Bertha Morris Parker
Open Library, Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL157827A/Bertha_Morris_Parker?page=4
Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, collections.broadmuseum.msu.edu
Champagne, Klopfer, Pioneers of Elementary-School Science: VI, 1980. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sce.3730640508
H.A. Rey
H.A. Rey Papers, Ax 828, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv65672#historicalID
Herman and Nina Schneider
Marquard, Bryan, Boston Globe, October 14, 2007
http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/10/14/nina_schneider_at_94_turned_from_writing_a_novel_to_tending_a_garden/?page=full
Hevesi, Dennis, New York Times, September 27, 2007
Martin, Douglas, New York Times, August 6, 2003
O. Irene Sevrey
Miner, O. Irene Sevrey, Plants We Know, Children’s Press, Chicago. 1981. Internet Archive Books
Muskegon County – Michigan, World War 2 Veterans www.ww2vets.net/veterans.shtml
Brown and Gold, 1947, Western Michigan University. https://web.library.wmich.edu/DIGI/WMU_Yearbooks/1947.pdf
Katherine Shippen
Commire, A. (1971). Something About the Author, Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale Research
Commire, A. (1981). Something About the Author, Vol. 23. Detroit: Gale Research
Wilson, H.W. (1954). Current Biography Yearbook. New York: H.W. Wilson Company
Eric Sloane
Mauch, James. “Honoring Our Teachers”, www.small farmers journal.com, Issue 32-1,
Smith, Marshall. www.eric sloane.com, 2012
Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel, “Self Portrait”, “Official Bio”, DavaSobel.com
Benjamin Wiker
Biography and Books, Benjamin Wiker.com, Feb. 2, 2021
The Journey Home, The Coming Home Network, chnetwork.org Feb. 26, 2001
https://chnetwork.org/journey-home/dr-benjamin-wiker-former-united-methodist-journey-home-program/