Jane Singer

Jane Singer is a Civil War scholar and author of The Confederate Dirty War: Arson, Bombings, Assassination and Plots for Chemical and Germ Attacks on the Union; McFarland & Company, August of 2005. In November of 2006, the History Channel based a two-hour special called Civil War Terror on her book. She was both the historical consultant for the project as well as the primary on screen narrator. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post Magazine (The Fiend in Gray), The Washington Times (Felix Stidger and the Sons of Liberty). Her research into Stidger; a little-known American hero, was illuminated in a Chicago Sun-Times article. Singer is a member of The Author's Guild, Pen West and The American Historical Association.

She is also a professional voice-over artist, narrator and lecturer. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and is available to speak to various groups across the country about her work on A War Criminal’s Son.

Singer has just written, produced and directed Green Zone Blues: Voices of War; a series of voices of ordinary men and women caught in the crosshairs of our troubled times. Her novel, Booth’s Sister—a hard look at the reckless, enchanted childhood of John Wilkes Booth and his beloved sister Asia will be published by Bell Bridge Books in July, 2008.