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Jane Bennett Gaddy, Ph.D.
“A Southern Family Perspective - Civil War
Reflections of the Olde South” p. 20
JANE BENNETT GADDY, Ph.D. is a true daughter of the South. Born in the
Mississippi Delta in 1940, a mere seventy-five years after the close of the War
Between the States, she writes with passion about her forebears who fought and died
in the heat of battle and the family that was left behind to endure the aftermath.
Her stories are fiction for who can know all the little nuances of a life, much less
the poignant details that Jane Gaddy showers upon her readers. She holds vigil over
the history of the South, the facts irrefutable. And to authenticate the family side of
her novels are the letters her great-great grandfather and his sons wrote home while
they were at war, the letters back to the fighting men from her great-great grandmother, likely strewn and bloodbespattered
across the peach orchard, the wheat field, and the railroad cut where the Clark men found their final
resting place on July 1 and 3, 1863.
Gaddy is the author of House Not Made With Hands, a poignant memoir that first sparked the writing of her
historical fiction series that presently consists of five novels—The Mississippi Boys published in 2008; Isaac’s
House, 2011; JOAB, 2013; Rachel, After Darkness, 2014, and To Love Again, 2016. She holds a Ph.D. in Religion;
administers a course in American Literature and English Composition for external studies students of Bethany
Divinity College and Seminary in Alabama; and she edits manuscripts and assists her clients all the way to the
publisher. She is a proud member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy through Captain Thomas Goode
(T.G.) Clark, Company F, 42nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Joseph Davis Brigade, A.P. Hill Corps, Henry Heth
Division, Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, Commander. Her genealogy extends to Lieutenant
Jonathan Clark of Christian County, Kentucky, who fought in the Kentucky militia in the Revolutionary War. |||
Sebastien Theodore
“Moving On Up - Destination
St. Petersburg, Florida” p. 15
Born, raised, and schooled in the Tampa Bay area,
Sebastien Theodore became a resident of
St. Petersburg, Florida in 2013. He is an alumnus
of Jesuit High School and the University of South
Florida. He draws inspiration for his writing from
the great state he inhabits and from the places he
travels. He has come to appreciate the growth and
diversity the City of St. Petersburg fosters. In the
span of three decades, he’s been a suburbanite, a
country boy, and a city boy. Sebastien prefers city
life to anything else he’s encountered. |||
Jean-Christophe Buillet
“Destination - Sedona, Arizona” p. 9
Jean-Christophe Buillet is the general manager
of A Sunset Chateau B&B in Sedona, Arizona as
well as the owner of a small accounting firm and
real estate practice. A 21-year resident of Sedona,
Arizona, Jean went to high school in Sedona,
studied engineering at Northern Arizona University
and went to ministry school at BSSM. Above all
else, he endeavors to improve the lives of others in
everything he does. |||