Botkin, Jane Little: - Award-winning author Jane Little Botkin served as a public school teacher for thirty years before turning to historical investigation and writing.
She is currently working on a biography of labor organizer Jane Street..
Her book Frank Little and the IWW has won two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, the Caroline Bancroft History Prize from the Western History and Genealogy Department of the Denver Public Library, and the Best Historical Nonfiction Award from the Texas Association of Authors.
Botkin continues to contribute to local historic preservation in the Texas Hill Country and New Mexico\'s White Mountain Wilderness.
In 2008 the Texas state legislature honored her career in education by formal resolution.
As a high school teacher, she supervised the compilation of fifteen volumes of the student publication A History of Dripping Springs and Hays County (1993-2008) , a valuable resource for Texas researchers.
Botkin, Jane Little: - Award-winning author Jane Little Botkin served as a public school teacher for thirty years before turning to historical investigation and writing