A little about the person behind the overflowing story was Jan Jarboe Russell. Russell was born in Beaumont, Texas and was raised in a small city in the Piney Woods of East Texas. Her dad was a preacher of music in many Southern Baptist ministries and in later years he had an additional job as a social employee. Her …show more content…
In 1984, she remained a Niemen Fellow at Harvard college, being one of the twelve American reporter to train at Harvard all through the school year. Despite the fact Russell was interested in Texas government she still went through Harvard and studied American literature. Thus, shifting her occupation in the direction of long-term reporting through the concentration on government, faith and public problems. Consequently in 1985, she combined with Texas Monthly magazine as a senior editor in chief. For the former four years, Russell has remained at exertion for Scribner’s on “The Train to Crystal City The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II.” which expresses the story of a top-secret World War II incarceration camp that was positioned in Crystal City, Texas. Russell is a participant of The Texas Institute of Letters and the Philosophical Society of Texas and helps as vice head of Gemini Ink. She now lives in San Antonio next to her husband, Dr. Lewis F. Russell, Jr. She is also the mother of two children: Tyler and Maury Rabb, and also loved by her two step-daughters, Cory Russell and Megan Russell Leahy and Kevin Leahy her