Jean P. Moore was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Miami, Florida. She received her PhD in English and began her professional career teaching American literature and writing. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and literary journals such as?Upstreet, SN Review, The Timberline Review, Angels Flight Literary West, the Hartford Courant, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Jean lives in the Berkshires in Massachusetts where she supports racial justice initiatives and facilitates book discussion groups.
""Moore excels at placing the trial in the context of the Spanish Flu, the Red Scare, the rise of anarchism, and World War I. She excels too at creating suspense."" The Historical Novel Society ""... celebrates the power of ancestry and the enduring spirit of the human experience."" John Turturro, Actor and Filmmaker ""... that rare, elegant braiding of history, testimony, and story that so many authors reach for.... A terrific read."" Lucy Ferriss, author of Foreign Climes and A Sister to Honor ""Love, ideals, and America, it's all in there."" Matt Tannenbaum, proprietor The Bookstore, Lenox, Massachusetts ""... elegant and beautifully written, explores the haunting effect of trans-generational trauma."" Rachel Urquhart, author of The Visionist ""... a must-read for those interested in the intersections of personal and political histories."" Tiziana Rinaldi Castro, novelist, author of Guida alla New York ribelle (Voland, Rome, 2024) and Deux Choses Amères et Une Douce (Cap Régions Éditions, Paris, 2024) ""... a dynamic novel that braids together fact, fiction, and her [the narrator's] own internal struggle between past and present. This story will resonate long after you turn the last page."" Celia Jeffries, author of Blue Desert ""... an extraordinary and moving historical novel."" Anne W. Semmes, writer and journalist, The Greenwich Sentinel ""Part love story, part historical fiction, part exploration of injustice and resistance, Crossing from Shore to Shore offers a propulsive and poignant narrative of immigrants, repression and collateral damage.... The novel ... dramatizes an age-old and fiercely topical question: how much would you risk to fight injustice?"" Ellen Meeropol, author of The Lost Women of Azalea Court