Jana Bommersbach
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Jana Bommersbach is one of Arizona's most honored and respected journalists. Her career has covered every phase of the profession--newspapers, magazines, books, television--and she's won major awards in each. For her work in 1982 for the weekly newspaper New Times, she was named Arizona's Journalist of the Year. In 1997 and 1999, she was named the outstanding columnist in the country by the National City Magazine Association for her columns in Phoenix Magazine. Her debut book, The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd, was nominated for the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America as one of the five outstanding non-fiction books published in the United States in 1992. It also won Arizona's only literary prize. In 2001, for her work for KTVK-TV, she won a Regional Emmy. In 2004, the Arizona Press Club awarded her its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award. In 2005, she was an inaugural inductee into the Arizona Hall of Fame. She received a lifetime achievement award in 2006 from the Society of Professional Journalists. |
Stories by Jana Bommersbach
Buffalo Bill's Billboard
A billboard of a play staged by Buffalo Bill Cody in March 1878 is saved thanks to paper conservationist Laura Schell.
Author
Jana Bommersbach
Date 04/01/2008
Senior Sleuth of Old-World Spanish
A 93-year-old archaeologist, Dr. Kathleen Gilmore is famous for discovering La Salle's fort in Texas.
Author
Jana Bommersbach
Date 03/01/2008
Crookedest Railroad Turns New Bend
Model railroads didn't do a thing for Jim Clark when he was a kid, but the real thing blew his whistle.
Author
Jana Bommersbach
Date 02/01/2008
Saving Dalton Days
Brent Demmitt grew up with Dalton Days in his hometown of Meade, Kansas, and remembers "it was everything to me."
Author
Jana Bommersbach
Date 01/01/2008
Massacre Site Open to the Public
Dozens of honorific titles have dignified the name of Ben Nighthorse Campbell...on the night of April 27, the only one that counted was Cheyenne.
Author
Jana Bommersbach
Date 11/01/2007
Ranchers vs. Army
Lon Robertson is a third generation Colorado rancher and patriotic American who never dreamed he'd be fighting the United States Army.
Author
Jana Bommersbach
Date 09/01/2007