Jill Churchill

Jill Churchill is the pen name used by one of the highly reputed authors from The United States named Janice Young Brooks for writing her historical romance and cozy mystery books. She is particularly renowned by writing the Grace & Favor and the Jane Jeffry book series. Author Churchill studied at the Kansas University and obtained her degree. Following this, she went on to study at the Missouri-Kansas City University and joined work as a teacher. Author Churchill continued with this profession for many years. For certain period of time, she even worked as a reviewer of books for the Kansas Star. In her career as a writer, author Churchill has won both the Macavity and Agatha awards. Currently, she enjoys her time living with her two children and grandchildren in her house in Kansas. She has been divorced by her husband long back. In her spare time, author Churchill likes to practice gardening, playing gin, and needlepointing. Churchill began her writing career in the year 1975 with the release of her first book titled Ozark Legacy. She had written this book under the pen name Amanda Singer. After the success of this book, author Churchill began writing under her original name. After some time in her prosperous writing career, she collaborated with Jean Brooks-Janowiak and adopted the pseudonym Valerie Vayle for writing a few of the romance books. She made her debut as Churchill in the year 1989 for writing cozy mystery books and the first book that she wrote under this name was titled as Grime and Punishment. This book marked the beginning of the popular Jane Jeffry series.