Background
Janis Arnold was born in Houston, Texas, United States. She has also lived in Florida and North Carolina.
Katy High School in Katy, Texas, United States.
The University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, United States where Janis received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
The University of Houston, Huston, Texas, United States where Janis received a Master of Arts degree.
(Claire Louise and Macy Rose Richards are sisters and best...)
Claire Louise and Macy Rose Richards are sisters and best enemies--fierce adversaries in a lifelong rivalry by turns bitter and hilarious. But their rivalry hides a terrible secret buried somewhere in the past. As each sister tells her story in Daughters Of Memory, pieces of the puzzle begin falling into place and a shocking and tragically familiar picture begins to emerge.
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1993
Janis Arnold was born in Houston, Texas, United States. She has also lived in Florida and North Carolina.
Being a child, Janis Arnold enjoyed reading – she swallowed all the books in her small school’s library. She started to write in fourth grade. Thanks to her cousin who loved to sketch and draw, first Janis’ books and stories were always illustrated.
Then Janis attended Katy High School in Katy, Texas, United States with a much larger library where she developed a significant interest in cheerleading and social activities.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, United States and a Master of Arts from the University of Houston, Huston, Texas, United States.
Janis Arnold’s first book, Daughters of Memory was firstly published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 1991 and then by numerous magazine articles.
After the marriage, she moved to San Antonio, Texas, United States where she began to work as an educational diagnostician. It is here where she published her second book Excuse Me For Asking in 1994.
Nowadays, she’s working on literary mysteries Shade Island and McKenzie Park that feature characters and settings from small town Texas similar to the Brookshire-Katy area where she grew up.
As to her work as pro bono advocate for children with learning disabilities, she is writing Aleczander’s Story, a first hand account of how public education failed a little boy and how his community came together to rescue him. Another Janis Arnold’s nonfiction project is One Starfish At A Time, a series of interviews that revisits concerns about free appropriate public education programs (FAPE) and suggests solutions to the literacy crisis in our country.
(Claire Louise and Macy Rose Richards are sisters and best...)
1993(It is a story of friendship and family, of big dreams and...)
1994Quotes from others about the person
"Stylistically smooth, sensitive in all the politically correct ways, and – even when the subject is unpleasant – give that comfortable pleasure that comes when one is given the illusion of exploring a territory disturbing because of its content but quite safe because of its familiarity." - Lee Lemon about Daughters of Memory
“gives the whole book an eccentric, syncopated rhythm ... a real pleasure to read.” - Erika Taylor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review about the style of Excuse Me for Asking
Janis Arnold is married and has a son.