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Levi's & Lace
Arizona Women Who Made History
By Jan Cleere

Celebrate the Extraordinary Women who Shaped
Arizona History!

Award-winning author Jan Cleere brings her exceptional skills in research and writing to a new book about more than 35 heroic women of Arizona. From teachers and entrepreneurs to artists and healers, Cleere provides an informative text that highlights historical Hispanic, African American, Native American, and Anglo women who made their mark in the intriguing history of this state.

Jan Cleere writes extensively about the desert southwest, its unique characters, creatures, and vegetation. Her books reflect the history of the Southwest and the people who first settled in the region. While she has been writing since the age of ten, she admits to taking forty years off to raise her children and run a family business. She consistently turns out award-winning books including Amazing Girls of Arizona: True Stories of Young Pioneers, honored by the Arizona Book Publishing Association as one of the best books of 2009, Outlaw Tales of Arizona: True Stories of Arizona’s Most Famous Robbers, Rustlers, & Bandits, 2007 winner of the National Federation of Press Women's Literary Competition for Historical Nonfiction, and More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Nevada Women, a 2006 WILLA Literary Award Finalist. He latest release is Levi's & Lace: Arizona Women Who Made History.

The Nevada Women's History Project elected Jan to its Roll of Honor for "her significant contribution in the preservation of Nevada's women’s history." Her freelance work appears in numerous regional and national publications. Her articles published in Phoenix Woman Magazine received the Arizona Newspapers Association Outstanding Writing Award for 2010.  

Jan serves on the Coordinating Council of the Arizona Women’s Heritage Trail, an organization dedicated to linking women’s history to historic sites throughout the state. She is a member of Western Writers of America, National Federation of Press Women, Women Writing the West, Authors Guild, Arizona Authors Association, Society of Southwestern Authors, Arizona Historical Society, Nevada Historical Society and the Nevada Women’s History Project. She and her husband live in Oro Valley, Arizona.

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