Author's Biography
Alice A. Jackson began writing poems and fictional stories while still in elementary school. Writing became her lifelong dream, a dream encouraged by her three aunts, who played a pivotal role in her young years. Much of those years were spent with the aunts in Fairmont and Grantown, WV, where reading was Jackson's favorite past time, along with playing baseball in the 'holler' below her Aunt Alice's home.
In and out of more than nearly a dozen elementary schools and three high schools, Jackson began working as a long distance telephone operator to pay her way through the University of Tulsa, where she majored in journalism and history.
It was in French class she met her future husband, then editor of the campus newspaper. A year after they were married, they welcomed the first of their four children. As a journeyman journalist, her husband moved from one small newspaper to another before they hauled their worldly belongings in a small U-haul trailer to Evansville, IN, where they lived for the next 28 years.
Jackson began her career in television news as a reporter for the NBC affiliate in Evansville, the only woman on the small news staff. She was named news director/anchor of the ABC affiliate in Evansville in 1981, one of only three women holding that position among the nation's top 100 television markets at that time. As news director, Jackson reshaped the evening newscast into a magazine format, one of the first of its kind in a local market, inserting health and entertainment reports and leading the station to a number of statewide awards, including Indiana Station of the Year and Best Statewide Newscast.
In 1991, Jackson left Evansville to purchase a small radio station in Franklin, TN. When it was sold, she worked for the local newspaper, the Review Appeal, which had been published for nearly two centuries. The newspaper was later sold to the Nashville Tennessean. Just prior to the change of ownership, Jackson retired and began writing her first novel, Good-bye, Gadsden, set in World War II. She has most recently completed a children's story set in Morocco and a new novel, BROKEN CHORD, A Music Row Mystery.
In 2007, Jackson moved to Indiana with her beloved, multiply disabled adopted son, Robert, to be closer to family members.
After retiring, she began traveling outside the United States. Following the death of her adopted son in 2011, Jackson embarked on several world cruises and overland trips. To date, she has visited more than 124 countries, including Tibet, Myanmar (Burma), and a number of nations in Africa and the Middle East. Among her adventures was being part of a group chased by Komodo Dragons on their remote island habitat in Indonesia, and sharing tea with a family in their round-roofed, traditional mud hut, high in the Himalayans in Tibet.
Several years ago, Jackson launched a commentary blog - Alice In Blogger-Land - where she opins on a variety of issues, people and events.
Email: aliceajackson@live.com
In and out of more than nearly a dozen elementary schools and three high schools, Jackson began working as a long distance telephone operator to pay her way through the University of Tulsa, where she majored in journalism and history.
It was in French class she met her future husband, then editor of the campus newspaper. A year after they were married, they welcomed the first of their four children. As a journeyman journalist, her husband moved from one small newspaper to another before they hauled their worldly belongings in a small U-haul trailer to Evansville, IN, where they lived for the next 28 years.
Jackson began her career in television news as a reporter for the NBC affiliate in Evansville, the only woman on the small news staff. She was named news director/anchor of the ABC affiliate in Evansville in 1981, one of only three women holding that position among the nation's top 100 television markets at that time. As news director, Jackson reshaped the evening newscast into a magazine format, one of the first of its kind in a local market, inserting health and entertainment reports and leading the station to a number of statewide awards, including Indiana Station of the Year and Best Statewide Newscast.
In 1991, Jackson left Evansville to purchase a small radio station in Franklin, TN. When it was sold, she worked for the local newspaper, the Review Appeal, which had been published for nearly two centuries. The newspaper was later sold to the Nashville Tennessean. Just prior to the change of ownership, Jackson retired and began writing her first novel, Good-bye, Gadsden, set in World War II. She has most recently completed a children's story set in Morocco and a new novel, BROKEN CHORD, A Music Row Mystery.
In 2007, Jackson moved to Indiana with her beloved, multiply disabled adopted son, Robert, to be closer to family members.
After retiring, she began traveling outside the United States. Following the death of her adopted son in 2011, Jackson embarked on several world cruises and overland trips. To date, she has visited more than 124 countries, including Tibet, Myanmar (Burma), and a number of nations in Africa and the Middle East. Among her adventures was being part of a group chased by Komodo Dragons on their remote island habitat in Indonesia, and sharing tea with a family in their round-roofed, traditional mud hut, high in the Himalayans in Tibet.
Several years ago, Jackson launched a commentary blog - Alice In Blogger-Land - where she opins on a variety of issues, people and events.
Email: aliceajackson@live.com