Ann Seaman

Ann Rowe Seaman was born in Austin, Texas in 1946. She began publishing articles in 1973 on a wide variety of topics, starting with the pop music scene in her home town. She has written, edited, and produced materials for magazines and newspapers, and authored TV and film narrations. Her articles and columns on music, film and television, natural history, international business, anthropology, and other subjects have appeared in publications such as the Los Angeles Times and World Trade Magazine. She has served as Public Relations Director for Austin-Travis County MHMR, editor of campus publications at the University of Southern California, freelance editor of fiction and nonfiction books, and editor of TERRA, the magazine of Los Angeles County's Natural History Museum. Her publications and video productions have won national awards, including ones from such organizations as the American Association of Museums and the Broadcasters' Promotion Association. Her 1999 biography of Jimmy Swaggart won the Texas Institute of Letters' Carr P. Collins Award for Best Nonfiction book. Her biography of Madalyn Murray O'Hair was released in summer 2005. She is currently working on two non-fiction projects and negotiating film rights to her biographies.

A fourth-generation Texan, she holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree from the University of Southern California. She is married with four grown children.