Jan Krulick-Belin

Award-winning author Jan Krulick-Belin is a museum and art consultant, and art and jewelry historian with nearly forty years of experience at such institutions as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Denver Art Museum, Beaumont (Texas) Art Museum, and Smithsonian Institution. Retired as Director of Education at the Phoenix Art Museum, she still works with museums, art organizations, and private collectors, and serves as guest curator at the Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum in Phoenix.

Jan has a bachelor’s degree in art history from the State University of New York, Binghamton, and a master’s degree in museum education from George Washington University in Washington, DC. She grew up in New York City, and currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona.

She drew on her research skills to delve into her past, creating Love, Bill, as a labor of love that fulfilled her father’s dream as well as her own.

Jan Krulick-Belin was singled out as Top Female Author (Nonfiction) for 2017 by the AuthorsShow.com, and "Love, Bill" has been awarded a Silver Medal for the 2017 Arizona Literary Awards-Nonfiction and the Best Non-Fiction Cover Design by the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Jan was also named a Finalist in Nonfiction-Memoir for the 2017 Readers’ Favorites Award and a Finalist in both First Nonfiction and Memoir categories in the 2017 Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards.