Jeanne M Blanchet PhD

Award-winning writer, artist, lecturer and musical performer Jeanne Maxant Blanchet was born in Chicago. After graduating from Northwestern University Summa Cum Laude, she was awarded a prestigious Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study. She has a M.A. from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. from Hawaii in Asian Studies and spent five additional years in the Orient pursuing post-doctoral studies. Currently she is at home in Arizona and Colorado.

In her leisure she enjoys traveling, hiking, duplicate bridge and volunteer work. She was married to William B. Blanchet, who passed away in the 1990's. Memberships include P.E.O., Sun Health Foundation, and Phi Beta Kappa. Books she has authored include The Monk Who Wrestled with God: a Novel of Martin Luther; Wellspring, Terminators, Man at the Cross Road, Cursed, and Forger of Empire: a Novel of Genghis Khan. In 2018 she won several literary awards in Historical Fiction and the Albert Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.