Janice Holt Giles

Janice Holt Giles was an American writer best known for her series of pseudo historical novels focusing on life, on the American frontier. She was born to Lucy Elizabeth and John Albert Holt on March 28, 1905 in the small town of Altus in Arkansas. Her given name was Janice Meredith Holt. She was the elder of 3 siblings with her sister Mary Katherine Holt Sullivan 2 years younger and John Albert Holt Jr. 4 years her junior. In her early years, she worked several clerical jobs, most of which were in church affiliated organizations and groups in Kentucky and Oklahoma. In 1927, she was married to Otto Moore her first husband, but the marriage would never last as she divorced him in 1939 and moved to Frankfort. She went on to get a job as a secretary with the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky in 1941.