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In November of 2008 Janis Faye Kearney published her first novel, One Upon a Time There Was A Girl: A Murder at Mobile Bay. She also published the second installment of her memoir - Something to Write Home About: Memories of a Presidential Diarist.
Ms. Kearney is an author, lecturer, and publisher. She served as the Presidential Diarist to William Jefferson Clinton from 1995 - 2001. Hers was the first such appointment in Presidential history.
She was hired by the State of Arkansas in 1978, where she spent three years as a program manager for the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act program, and another six years as the director of information for the national headquarters of the Migrant Student Records Transfer System.
In 1987, she became the managing editor of the Arkansas State Press Newspaper, owned and operated by civil rights activist Daisy Gaston Bates. Three months after Janis joined the paper, Ms. Bates retired and Ms. Kearney bought the company. Janis published the weekly newspaper in Arkansas for five years.
In 1992, when then governor Bill Clinton decided to run for U.S. President, he recruited Kearney--who he knew from her role as publisher of the Arkansas State Press -- to serve as director of his campaign’s Minority Media Outreach effort.
Following the 1993 election, Kearney worked in the Little Rock office of the Clinton presidential transition. After the president’s inauguration, she worked first as a White House media affairs officer and then as director of public communication for the U.S. Small Business Administration.
In her role as Presidential Diarist Kearney kept a daily diary of President Clinton’s daily activities - attending meetings, events, and press conferences – in order to create a living history. In 1998, her diary of the President’s days was subpoenaed by Kenneth Starr’s grand jury. The diary would eventually be passed on to the Clinton Library.
In 2001 Janis moved to Chicago, but began a two-year Fellowship at Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute of African and African American Studies, where she began writing her Clinton biography, Conversations: William Jefferson Clinton-From Hope to Harlem . She continued her research and writing of Conversations as a visiting fellow at DePaul University. Conversations was published in 2006, and features, in part, interviews with more than 100 African-American acquaintances and friends of President Clinton about his legacy.
Kearney began working on her memoir, Cotton Field of Dreams, in 1977, which focused on her father’s life story. After years of shopping her manuscript at writers’ workshops, she began revising the book to center around her own life story, while including her father and the rest of the family. She revised the book over the next ten years. Kearney established Writing Our World (WOW) Press in 2004, and published Cotton Field that same year.
(from Wikipedia)