Levy, JoAnn
LEVY, JoAnn
LEVY, JoAnn. American, b. 1941. Genres: Novels, History, Women's studies and issues, Biography. Career: Writer. Worked as editor and contributor to magazines. Frequent public speaker. Publications: Behind the Western Skyline, 1981; They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush, 1990; Unsettling the West: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Kirby in Frontier California (biography), 2004. NOVELS: Daughter of Joy, 1998; For California's Gold, 2000. Address: PO Box 1809, Sutter Creek, CA 95685, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]
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