More About Calamity Jan
 Children's mystery writer, Jan Pierson aka Calamity Jan, raised three kids, authored five juvenile mysteries (The Carson Kids, Tyndale House
Publishers, 1979-88) then went to college. After getting her BA in Psychology, Jan taught writing with The Institute of Children's Literature.
But a new adventure began to lure Calamity Jan away from the academics
and back into the fray. Kicking up the dust and rubble in ghost towns of the
western United States set the stage for her return to writing. When Jan
walked into Bodie, a town once known as the wildest mining camp in
California's history, she was hooked.
If Jan Pierson isn't poking around in some ghost town in the western
United States, she's writing or speaking about the exciting history (and
mystery) of the early West. It's been a wild and wonderful ride and Calamity
Jan has only just begun. Let sleeping ghosts lie? Never.
The words "Goodbye God, I'm going to Bodie," penned in a young girl's diary, became a California legend and the title for the first book in her GHOSTOWNER mystery series for middle grade readers.
The Ghost of Nighthawk, Shadow of Shaniko, and The Haunted Horse of Gold Hill follow in the dust.
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