Background

Jeanne Braselton was born on October 12, 1962, in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, United States. She was the adopted daughter of Charles Eldon and Rosalee (Logan) Ingram.

Education

Jeanne Braselton studied at Berry College where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1983.

Career

Jeanne Braselton, before becoming a writer, was a reporter and editor at Rome News-Tribune and a commercial bank marketing executive.

Braselton enrolled in a creative writing class that led her to correspond with a number of well-known regional writers, including Kaye Gibbons, Lee Smith, William Styron, Ellen Gilchrist, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Charles Frazier. With their encouragement and influence, Braselton wrote A False Sense of Well Being (2001), a debut novel that centers on Jessie Maddox and her marriage to Turner, a loving but boring man. After suffering a miscarriage, Jessie becomes obsessed with her husband's death and finds herself thinking about his demise and the many ways it could be brought about. Stunned and somewhat taken aback by her daydreams, she realizes that something is missing in her genteel life, and, after eleven years of marriage, decides to take off on her own in search of meaning. Her journey takes her home where her parents live. What she discovers there is the past she never quite left behind, and the future she has never allowed herself to fully embrace.

Although Braselton denied that the novel was autobiographical, elements from her own life were woven throughout the storyline. For instance, Braselton had several miscarriages throughout her marriage, the last one just one month before she wrote the miscarriage scene in the novel. The title came directly from the warning label of a medication Braselton was taking.

Her second book, The Other Side of Air, was short just three chapters at her death. She wanted the novel to be completed. It was to have been released in August 2003 but was published in 2006. The book is about getting over grief from the point of view of a deceased wife looking down on her earth-bound husband.

Achievements

• Jeanne Braselton was a widely acclaimed author known for her two books. In 2002 she was the recipient of the Georgia Press Association Award for the best first novel for A False Sense of Well Being. Her second book, published after her death, received very positive reviews from readers.

Works

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  • The Other Side of Air

    (The Other Side of Air is a novel about the power of endur...)

    2006
  • A False Sense of Well Being

    (At thirty-eight, Jessie Maddox subscribes to House Beauti...)

    2001

Membership

Jeanne Braselton was a member of the board of directors of the Rome Area Council for the Arts.

Personality

Braselton was an excellent cook.

Physical Characteristics: The cause of Braselton's death was suicide. She left a note indicating that she was unable to get past her husband's death.

Quotes from others about the person

• "Ms. Braselton was so, so beloved, and she was so talented." - Stella Connell

Interests

• reading, watching movies, listening to music, playing with family pets, and visiting family

Connections

In 1987, Jeanne Braselton married Albert Braselton, who died in 2002.

Jeanne had a stepdaughter, Charlotte Rebecca Braselton.

foster father:

Charles Eldon Ingram

foster mother:

Rosalee (Logan) Ingram

Late Husband:

Albert Braselton

Albert Braselton (June 21, 1935 - February 21, 2002) is known as the one who accompanied James Dickey on the river trip that was the basis for Dickey's novel Deliverance.

stepdaughter:

Charlotte Rebecca Braselton