About the Author
Jane E. B. Simmons is a free-lance professional writer and artist.
Since March 2003, Jane has been a member of the Board of Editors for the monthly full-color equine magazine Saddle & Bridle. The national horse publication, based in St. Louis, Missouri, often places her column on its SaddleAndBridle.com website. In 2004, she also became a free-lance Correspondent for Sun Publications of Florida.
She has served as a reporter, an editor, a Missouri State Capitol News Bureau Chief, and a freelance writer. An award-winning writer, Jane also has been a radio political commentator, and founder of several not-for-profit national organizations.
She is a 1996 graduate of the Missouri Auction School and in her persona of E. B. Livingsfun — costumed in long white gloves, tiara and golf shoes — “warms up” auction audiences with down-home humor. She is a former State President of the Missouri Writers’ Guild, founded in 1915 at the University of Missouri Journalism School, for and by published professional writers. She is the author of four published books; one was selected in many Missouri schools as an entertaining textbook on the state’s government. Jane is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia.
When not writing, Jane offers personal empowerment Daisy Workshops: Hidden Dynamics of Politics, Grandparents as Genealogy Gurus, English Enhancement Power Skills, and her latest — Writing An Historical Biography Without Going Cross-eyed. She consents occasionally to accepting a commission to do a portrait oil painting. In her spare time, Jane’s been known to play a few rounds of golf when weather permits.
On Jane’s website SimmonsBook.com, you may order her fourth and latest book: Arthur Simmons: American Icon Of The Horse World - A Daughter’s Memories, Volume One. The 328-page book has 724 photographs. The Index lists the more than 2,100 names of horses, people, and horse farms/stables given in the book.
Volume One tells the story of the early years of this horseman -- one of the most famous in 20th Century America’s horse world. It reveals Art Simmons’ life and times during the century’s first four decades that witnessed the Great Depression, The Great War, World War II, and the resuming of horse shows in the late 1940s. The book is the first in a planned trilogy.
Jane's three previous published books are now all Collectors' editions....
- Her history of the Church of St. Peter was used to commemorate the centennial of the Catholic Church located across from the State Capitol of Missouri and its role in the community life of Jefferson City
- Teachers used her fun Missouri Government & Constitution Handbook #1 for the Ignorant, Simple-Minded and Political Junkies as a text book for their middle school students, and the Missouri League of Women Voters used it as a primer for first-time voters
- Her third book -- Missouri Government & Constitution Handbook #2: Job Opportunities in Missouri State Government -- was so comprehensive it was used for over two decades by those wanting to know about the role of the state's government as an employer and as an information resource on the government's structure and function
