Jana Bommersbach
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
Railroad's First Lady
If any man in 1901 had been asked about women in business, he'd have laughed and said they didn't have any "business sense."
Don't Miss the Party Train
We know the train was a major player in the settling of the Old West.
Medicine Snake Woman
Interracial marriages flourished among fur traders and Plains Indians.