Heroes Among Us

Jane Cox completed her undergraduate work at Iowa State University and has now been on the ISU faculty for over twenty years. She currently is an Associate Professor and stage director for Iowa State University Theatre. She has been involved with over two hundred-fifty productions as an actress, designer, or director. Her one-woman shows have been performed in over twenty-four states as well as the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian, and Russia. She wrote The Yellow Rose of Suffrage through funding from a grant from the Liberal Arts and Sciences College at Iowa State. It concerns the life and words of one of America's most important suffragists, Carrie Chapman Catt. Jane has also written Fields of Endless Days which starred Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, scripts for musical plays on the lives of Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Nadia Boulanger and The Longing to Understand, the story of Barbara McClintock, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine. Jane has been awarded The Faculty Citation, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Excellence in Artistic Creativity Award, and a Commendation from Governor Terry E. Branstad. Patrick Gouran, an Associate Professor of Theatre at Iowa State University, has a wide variety of experiences in both theatre (director/actor) and as a professional photographer. Gouran's photographic images have appeared in national publicationsCox, Jane is the author of 'Heroes Among Us' with ISBN 9781888223361 and ISBN 1888223367.