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
A Good Enough Mine
The silver mine was good enough in 1878 to birth Tombstone, Arizona.
America's Favorite Bone Detective
Alferd Packer has been called "America's Favorite Cannibal."
Remember the Baca-Cowboy War?
For most of his life, Henry Martinez had no idea he was part of history.
New Kid On the Block
El Paso, Texas, is a city with a past-far more of a past than most communities in the West can claim.
The Kings of the Beaumont
Reopening Colorado's "Flagship of the San Juans."
Horse Trading for a Better Guthrie
How the power of the few brought back the “Magic City.”
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.
Senior Sleuth of Old-World Spanish
A 93-year-old archaeologist, Dr. Kathleen Gilmore is famous for discovering La Salle's fort in Texas.
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.
Saving Dalton Days
Brent Demmitt grew up with Dalton Days in his hometown of Meade, Kansas, and remembers "it was everything to me."