Meet the Director,
Jeanne Toomey

On jacket of her book, Assignment Homicide, it says,

"Working for as many as thirty newspapers, as well as the Associated Press and King Features Syndicate, Jeanne Toomey has been a veteran wanderer and itinerant.  Never caring much about pensions, benefits, and other serious concerns of her peers, she has become more preoccupied with seeing the "Real America" (or France or Mexico).  She has worked both sides of the United States, carrying a notebook or tape recorder. 

Published by Family Circle, Family Weekly, AP Newsfeatures, and a number of detective magazines and newspapers, she has won the "Woman of the Year" award from the New York Women's Press Club, as well as the Nevada State Press Association's prize as best feature writer.  "You don't get much pay, so I might as well see the world!" has been her philosophy.  "And I've had a great time doing it," she says. 

A graduate of Southampton College of Long Island University, she has been on the lookout for the "Real Mount Vernon" or the "Real Albany," and tries to hold up a strong mirror to life. Now she heads Pegeen Fitzgerald's Last Post, in Falls Village, Connecticut.

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