jan brogan / media bio

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About the Author

Jan Brogan has been a journalist for twenty years. She is a former staff writer at The Providence Journal-Bulletin in Rhode Island and The Worcester Telegram and Gazette in Massachusetts and currently works as a correspondent for The Boston Globe. Her freelance work has appeared in Boston Magazine, The Improper Bostonian, Ladies Home Journal and Forbes Magazine.

A winner of the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished financial writing, she drew on her experience as an investigative reporter to weave together the backdrop of her first novel, Final Copy.

That novel, which won The Drood Review of Mystery’s Editors’ Choice award, was named one of the best eight mysteries published in 2001. Her new book, A Confidential Source, will be published by Mysterious Press in April 2005.

Brogan is a member of Sisters In Crime/New England, Mystery Writers of America, and Pen/New England. She has taught novel writing at the Cape Cod Writer’s Center, the Boston Learning Society in Needham, The Brown University Learning Community andThe Learning Connection in Providence.

A native of Clifton, New Jersey, she lives in Westwood, Massachusetts with her husband, her two children, a bird and a dog.