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About the Author: Janet Alexander Pell
 Janet's
interests include a passion for writing, good literature,
dance, and always humor. The performing arts, travel,
teaching, editing, and politics are subjects that she
finds irresistible. And you can always catch her scribbling
on any scrap of paper whenever she hears a good quote.
Janet graduated from University of Rhode Island in
1995. Her awards include: Phi Beta Kappa, Highest Honors,
and the President’s Award for Excellence in English.
She went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts in Creative
Nonfiction from Goucher College in 1999. She loves
academic life and takes advantage of Brown University’s
close proximity, recently completing a course there
in advanced editing and another in travel writing.
She also served as a facilitator at Brown Medical School
for discussions between author, Anne Hawkins (A Small
Good Thing – on children with HIV), students and professors.
Janet's career path has taken her in many directions
but the jobs that have involved the written word have
given her the most satisfaction. She stayed on as a
teaching assistant at URI and worked at the Writing
Center there. She has also taught creative nonfiction
at an adult learning center. The public high school
in her hometown brought her in to help tutor seniors
with their college essays. Numerous hotel and meeting
center publications, as well guidebooks have asked
Janet to write eye-catching copy for them. Her work
has appeared in Redbook, Newport Review, Brevity, Providence
Journal, Newport this Week, Outside Apple, and was
a regular writer for Newport Life. If you want to make
her smile ask her about the speeches she wrote for
clients.
Janet has served on many local boards and been a diligent
worker in her hometown but is now turning more attention
to these quote books that continue to be successful
and have connected her to so many different people.
These links to folks from all over the world have been
invaluable and inspired her to create her blog, The
Pell Post. She enjoys being tied to a global audience
with similar interests but not always the same point
of view! Janet sees these quotes as tiny dazzling blogs.
A meaningful truism can stretch out over thousands
of years and thousands of miles to touch our hearts
and minds and remind us we are all connected.
Humankind has not woven the web of
life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
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