Jane Brox

Jane (Martha) Brox (born 1956 ) is an American author, who specializes in non-fiction works. Her father was John Brox (1910–1995). She graduated from Colby College in 1978 and currently lives in Maine.

Awards and honors

 * 1996 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family

Works

 * Books
 * Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family (1995, ISBN 0-8070-6200-6; ISBN 0-8070-6201-4)
 * Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History (1999, Beacon Press, Boston MA)
 * Clearing Land, Legacies of the American Farm (2004, ISBN 978-0-86547-649-3)
 * Brilliant, the Evolution of Artificial Light (2010; ISBN 978-0-547-05527-5)
 * Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives (2019, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN 978-0544702486


 * Other works
 * Brox's website lists 30 magazine articles that she has written
 * The website lists 9 publications which have carried her poetry
 * The website lists 7 published book reviews written by Brox
 * The website lists 11 radio essays produced by Brox, carried primarily by NPR