Jane (Martha) Brox (born 1956) is an American author, who specializes in non-fiction works. Her father was John Brox (1910–1995). She graduated from

Colby College Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. It was founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, then renamed Waterville College after the city where it resides. The donations of Christian philant ...

in 1978 and currently lives in

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Awards and honors

*1996 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, ''Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family''

Works

;Books *''Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family'' (1995, ; ) *''Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History'' (1999, Beacon Press, Boston MA) *''Clearing Land, Legacies of the American Farm'' (2004, )AMAZON.COM *''Brilliant, the Evolution of Artificial Light'' (2010; ) *''Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives'' (2019, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ;Other works *Brox's website lists 30 magazine articles that she has written *The website lists 9 publications which have carried her poetry *The website lists 7 published book reviews written by Brox *The website lists 11 radio essays produced by Brox, carried primarily by

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References

Jane Brox website
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