Jane Kirkpatrick is the best-selling author of eight historical novels and two non-fiction books all set in the late 1800s and early 1900s and all based on actual people or events. Her first novel, A Sweetness to the Soul, won the coveted Wrangler Award from the Western Heritage Center and National Cowboy Hall of Fame, an award earned previously by such authors as Louis L'Amour, Larry McMurtry and James Michener. The titles in her Kinship and Courage Historical Series have been features as both Crossings and Doubleday Book Club selections.