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Jane Bernard (born 11 May 1949, Baltimore, Maryland, USA) is an American best-selling author and intuition expert having degrees in philosophy and special education. She has written several books on the topic of using intuition to improve life quality and has appeared on a number of television and radio broadcasts to discuss the impact that intuition can have. She is writing for 25 years, starting as a technical writer for educational think tanks, educational television, ghost writing speeches, re-writing books, screenplays and proposals, as well as publishing creative writing. She has also been an adjunct writing professor at several universities.

Biography
Jane Bernard was born on May 11, 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland. She studied for her BA in Philosophy at The New School for Social Research and for her MS in Special education at The Bank Street College. She has previously worked with autistic children having difficulties in communication as well as with brain damaged and emotionally disturbed children who were handicapped because their perceptions were warped. .

She was working for Educational Design, Inc., an educational think tank, where she was tasked with overseeing and where she developed a multimedia approach to education that has since been put into practice all over the United States.

From 1990 until 1998 Jane conducted monthly creative writing workshops on the topic of intuation use in everyday life. Bernard's book "Knock Your Block off" was originally part of the teaching materials used in this course. .

Bernard currently lives in New York City, USA. She is divorced with two grown up children.

In media
As well as being an accomplished writer, Jane is also a much sought after key note speaker and has appeared at a large number of events, and made apperances on many television and radio programs including The Joey Reynolds Show and The Montel Williams Show among others.