Jane Toombs

Jane Ellen Jamison was born on 27 December 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA, daugther of Frances (Crooks) and James K. Jamison. When she was nine months old, her parents, both teachers, took her to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where she grew up most of her childhood. Her father played a key role in encouraging her as a writer, who was, himself, a history writer. She attended Michigan State University, College of the Sequoias and Northern Michigan University. She has been a registered nurse as well as a Cadet nurse. She had moved from upstate New York to Carson City, Nevada--the result of falling in love with a Nevadan. On 24 June 1949, she married Albert Jenke, they had five children: James, Ellen, Ann, Bobbie Jane, and Robert. On 2 March 1972, she married second time with John Edward Toombs. She is now a widow, and has returned "home" to live in the beautiful Upper Peninsula on the shore of Lake Superior--with the Viking from her past. She has five children, two stepchildren: Michael and Leslie, and seven grandchildren. Jane Ellen has published of numerous published books, both in paper and electronic, as well as some articles. She uses her maiden and married name: Ellen Jamison and Jane Toombs, but she has used a few pseudonyms: Olivia Sumner, and Jane Anderson, she also wrote as Diana Stuart in collaboration with Dee Stuart, and under the colective pseudonyms: Rebecca Drury, and Lee Willoughby Davis. Her writing covers various romance genres such as gothic, suspense, contemporary, historical, paranormal, mystery, fantasy and horror.