About Jane Self

With both parents as staunch educators, she always assumed that, too, was to be her destiny.  Alas, she revolted after a decade in the field. In the meantime, however, she earned a doctorate in administration. Intending to use her newfound credentials to transform learning, she quickly realized she was chasing windmills.

She moved on to become a planner in corrections, the other end of the spectrum, where often people who didn’t pay attention to their schooling ended up. Although she wasn’t long in this arena, she surprisingly discovered a love she didn’t know she had – writing! She relished putting facts, figures and ideas together in reports that others could easily understand.

With that exciting discovery, she settled into the newspaper business, first at the Macon Telegraph and later at The Tuscaloosa News. She wrote feature stories, news stories, obituaries and personal columns. In addition to writing, she was features editor most of that time.

Jane wrote a book about Werner Erhard, “60 Minutes and the Assassination of Werner Erhard,” published in 1992. In 2013, she put together an e-book, “Alabama’s Fallen Warriors,” based on a series she had written for the News honoring troops who died in the war on terror.

After the birth of her grandson Eli in 2012, she became a granny nanny. Granddaughter Chloe followed three years later. In the fall of 2019, Jane completed nanny duty when Chloe started school as a pre-kindergartener.

Jane is now a sorority house director at the University of Georgia in Athens. Although creatively stymied by COVID pandemic syndrome, she continues to mull over several books that have been stirring around in her brain for years.