Jean Henry Mead is an American novelist, award-winning photojournalist, historian and editor/publisher. She has also written under the names: Jean Henry, Jean Mead, and S. Jean Mead.
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Born in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California, Mead wrote a number of books of interviews with well-known people, including politicians, writers, actors, artists and screenwriters. She has also written western history, the Logan & Cafferty mystery/suspense series and a Wyoming historical novel about Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. She established the Western Writers Hall of Fame in 1981 at the University of Wyoming, at Laramie, while serving as national publicity director for Western Writers of America. Her magazine articles have appeared domestically as well as abroad.
Mead began her writing career as a news reporter/photographer in San Diego and Hanford, California, and transferred to Wyoming, where she worked as a staff writer for the Casper Star-Tribune. She later served as editor of In Wyoming magazine and freelanced for the Denver Post's Empire magazine. Her freelance magazine articles have won a number of state, regional and national writing awards.
Among the hundreds of interviews contained in her books are: Vice President Dick Cheney, authors: Carolyn Hart, Jeffrey Deaver, J. A. Jance, Louise Penny, Louis L'Amour, Will Henry, Lucia St. Clair Robson and A.B. Guthrie, Jr.; as well as Elmore Leonard and Loren Estleman; Buffalo Bill's grandson, Bill Cody, who surrendered more troops during World War IIs Battle of the Bulge than any other officer in the European theatre of war; and presidential grandson, William Henry Harrison.
Her fifteen books consist of eight nonfiction and seven novels:
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