Jeanne Kalogridis (pronounced "Jean Kal-o-GREED-us"), is the pseudonym of J.M. Dillard (born 1954), a writer of historical, science and horror fiction.
She was born in Florida and studied at the University of South Florida, earning first a BA in Russian and then an MA in Linguistics. After college she taught English as a foreign language at the American University in Washington, D.C., before moving to the West Coast. Her interests include yoga, Zen Buddhism, languages, art and "reading everything ever published."
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“May we not assure ourselves that whatever woman’s thought and study shall embrace will thereby receive a new inspiration, that she will save science from materialism, and art from a gross realism; that the “eternal womanly shall lead upward and onward”?”
—Louisa Parsons Hopkins, U.S. scientist and author. As quoted in The Fair Women, ch. 16, by Jeanne Madeline Weimann (1981)