Jennifer Wilke lived everywhere but Ohio before coming of age in Alaska, where she helped develop telecommunications for instructional use. She studied screenwriting at USC, worked in film in Los Angeles, and is a produced playwright and screenwriter.
The discovery of long-hidden family letters and diaries in her aunt’s Ohio attic has inspired her first historical novel, The Color of Prayer. This blog records the experience of using family history and historical research to write authentic historical fiction.
She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she is at work on a second book.
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Interview
Red Wheelbarrow Writers : Featured RWB Writer of the Month, November 2011
Dramatic Works
Clues, a 20-min. color dramatic film (16mm) produced at USC School of Cinema-TV. Screenwriter & Story.
lifelines, a play in two acts. Produced at Perseverance Theater, Juneau, Alaska.
The Color of Prayer : a Civil War novel-in-progress
Next book (in progress) : The 1891 murder of Susan Long, a married woman, and how her husband got away with it. Set in Bellingham, Washington, where Susan is buried in an unmarked grave.
Hello Jennifer, my name is Gayle Williams. I sent you a brief email which i got from the LYBARGER LIKAGES
SORRY, sent the last one by accident. anyway we are related I believe and would like to correspond with you a bit about our family if you have the time.
I have seen the photo on your site about Edwin Lybarger and very interested in talking to you. Hopefully we can.
This is the first time i have ever BLOGED, if this is what i am doing…
If you have the Descendants book, my grandmother is #1746 her father is #648
Can you contact me regarding one of the photographs you posted in your blog, of Colonel J.L. Kirby Smith? I have some information you might be interested in him and his role in Utah Territory before the Civil War with the Simpson Expedition. Thanks! Ephriam Dickson, Fort Douglas Museum