Authors

Jane Hirshfield

4 books

Jane Hissey

2 books

Jane H. James

1 book

Jane Hokanson Hawks

2 books

Jane Igharo

1 book

Jane Isay

1 book

Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs (born Jane Butzner; May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was a Canadian and American journalist, author, and activist best known for her influence on urban studies. Her influential book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that urban renewal did not respect the needs of most city-dwellers. The book also introduced sociology concepts such as "eyes on the street" and "social capital". Jacobs was well known for organizing grassroots efforts to protect existing neighborhoods from "slum clearance" – and particularly for her opposition to Robert Moses in his plans to overhaul her neighborhood, Greenwich Village. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have passed directly through SoHo and Little Italy, and was arrested in 1968 for inciting a crowd at a public hearing on the project. After moving to Toronto in 1968, she joined the opposition to the Spadina Expressway and the associated network of expressways in Toronto planned and under construction. As a mother and a female writer who criticized experts in the male-dominated field of urban planning, Jacobs endured scorn from established figures, who called her a "housewife" and a "crazy dame." She did not have a college degree, or any formal training in urban planning, and was criticized for being unscholarly and imprecise. She was also accused of inattention to racial inequality, and her concept of "unslumming" has been compared with gentrification. <u>Source</u>: Jane Jacobs. (2016, May 4). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 10:55, May 4, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jane_Jacobs&oldid=718578863

7 books

Jane Jensen

1 book

Jane Johnson

1 book

Jane Johnston

1 book

Jane Juska

1 book

Jane Kelley

1 book

Jane Kenyon

4 books

Jane Kesner Morris Ardmore

1 book

Jane Kidder

Note: Jane Kidder and Charla Chin write under the pseudonym of Charlotte Simms; they live in Arizona

3 books

Jane K. Manning

1 book

Jane K. Setlow

1 book

Jane Kurtz

3 books

Jane Langton

4 books

Jane Laudon

2 books

Jane Lawrence Mali

1 book

Jane Lemon

1 book

Jane Leslie Conly

American children's writer

3 books

Jane Lindskold

6 books

Jane Livingston

1 book

Janell Cannon

6 books

Janelle Brown

1 book

Janelle Denison

16 books

Janelle Dennison

1 book

Janelle Jamison

1 book

Janelle Mowery

1 book

Janelle Shane

American artificial intelligence researcher and writer

1 book

Janelle Taylor

11 books

Jane Lock

1 book

Jane Louise Curry

3 books

Jane Lovelace

1 book

Jane Lovering

2 books

Jane L. Rosen

1 book

Jane Lynch

1 book

Jane Maas

1 book

Jane Mai

1 book

Jane Margolis

1 book

Jane Maxwell

1 book

Jane Mayer

Jane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books. She co-authored Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984–1988, with Doyle McManus, and Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, with Jill Abramson, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, was named one of The New York Times’s Top 10 Books of the Year and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Goldsmith Book Prize, the Edward Weintal Prize, the Ridenhour Prize, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. For her reporting at The New Yorker, Mayer has been awarded the John Chancellor Award, the George Polk Award, the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and the I. F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence presented by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Mayer lives in Washington, D.C. (source)

3 books

Jane McAdam

1 book

Jane McAlevey

2 books

Jane McBride Choate

1 book

Jane McFann

2 books

Jane McGonigal

2 books

Jane McIntosh

1 book