Janice Woods Windle is a Texas author. Windle was born in Seguin, Texas and currently lives in El Paso, Texas.
Windle's first two novels, True Women and Hill Country and her first-published work, the True Women Cookbook, all became best sellers and are based on extensive research into Windle's ancestors.
True Women, Windle's second novel, revealed the stories of Texas women who were caught up in the passions of war and revolution. True Women has been published in eight different languages and became the basis for a CBS miniseries starring Angelina Jolie, Dana Delany, and Annabeth GishAlso Michael Grey Eyes a native Canadian tribal dancer/actor .
Windle's latest novel is Will's War, based on the life of her grandfather.
Windle attended the University of Texas where she was a member of Alpha Phi women's fraternity. She has earned many academic honors including Mortar Board and the American Association of University Women's "Woman of the Year." She is also a Father of Texas Awards recipient and the Texas Legislature passed a bill commending her on her superb contributions to the citizens of Texas.
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“Our woods are sylvan, and their inhabitants woodmen and rustics; that is selvaggia, and the inhabitants are salvages. A civilized man, using the word in the ordinary sense, with his ideas and associations, must at length pine there, like a cultivated plant, which clasps its fibres about a crude and undissolved mass of peat.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)